correct, perfectly complacent, with no irregularities or angular
preferences of their own; with no admiration for anything but
athletic success, and no contempt for anything but originality of
ideas. They are so nice, so gentlemanly, so easy to get on with;
and yet, in another region, they are so dull, so unimaginative, so
narrow-minded. They cannot all, of course, be intellectual or
cultivated; but they ought to be more tolerant, more just, more
wise. They ought to be able to admire vigour and enthusiasm in
every department instead of in one or two; and it is we who ought
to make them feel so, and we have already got too much to do--
though I am afraid that you will think, after reading this vast
document, that I, at all events, have plenty of spare time. But it
is not the case; only the end of the half is at hand; we have
finished our regular work, and I have done my reports, and am
waiting for a paper. When you next hear I shall be a free man. I
shall spend Easter quietly here; but I have so much to do and clear
off that I probably shall not be able to write until I have set off
on my travels.--Ever yours,

T. B.



THE RED DRAGON,
COMPTON FEREDAY,
April 10, 1904.


DEAR HERBERT,--I was really too busy to write last week, but I am
going to try and make up for it. This letter is going to be a