I just now see a pleasant notice of myself in 'Bentley's Magazine.' Abuse of the 'Congress Poems,' of course.

Then a side stroke at 'Aurora Leigh,' which was original, of course, because it's my way to stand alone and attack people; but the principal merit of which otherwise was the suggestion of 'Lucille' (Lytton's new poem)--'Lucille,' says the critic, being superior in holiness and virtue and that sort of thing to 'Aurora'! Of course.
They subscribed in England five thousand pounds for Tom Sayers.

There's the advance of civilisation.

Napoleon has gone to Baden to arrange the world a little more comfortably, I hope.
Mr.Lewes and Miss Evans have been here, and are coming back to settle into our congenial bosom.

I admire her books so much, that certainly I shall not refuse to receive her, though she is not a medium.