be done, I find:--

(a) _Continuation of Typical Developments. Vol. III._

(b) _A Guide to Hertfordshire._

(c) _A Lesser Dictionary of French words not generally found in
other Lexicographical compilations._

(d) Theories on Dew. Practical utilitarian results.

(e) A Commentary on hitherto obscure portions of Shakespeare's
plays, with a life of the Great Poet, gathered from _obiter
dicta_, which nobody has, up to this time, noticed.

(f) "All Law founded upon Common Sense," _being a few steps towards
the abolition of technicalities and antique repetitions in our
legal proceedings_.

(g) _Pendant to the above, "Every man his own lawyer and somebody
else's."_

(h) _Studies in the Country._ I thought I should have been able to
write a good deal in this line while at the country-house. This
was to include botany, farming, agriculture generally, with a
resumption of what I took up years ago, as a Happy Thought,
namely, "Inquiries into, and Observations upon, the Insect
World."

Nothing of all this have I done. Not a line. It is afternoon. We have
most of us been to Church in the morning, except Boodels and Chilvern.
Those who have not been, gave the following reasons for arriving at the
same conclusion.

_Boodels' reason._ That he had a nasty headache, and should not get up.
[This he sent down to say at breakfast.]

_Milburd's reason._ That the weather looked uncommonly like rain. That
to get wet _going_ to Church is a most dangerous thing, as you have to
sit in your damp clothes.

_My own statement on the subject._ Milburd has puzzled me by saying it's
going to rain. Is it? If it isn't, nothing I should enjoy more than
going to Church. Wouldn't miss it on any account, except of course out
of consideration for one's health.

_Happy Thought._--I don't feel very well this morning, and damp feet
might be followed by the most serious results.

Miss Adelaide and Miss Bella are going. Their chaperonship this morning
devolves upon Mrs. Frimmely, as Madame and the Signor are Catholics, and
have been to mass, early in the morning, at St. Romauldi's Missionary
College, near here. Madame is very strict, and the Signor is not partial
to early rising. The College Service being at half-past eight in the
morning, they have to rise at seven on Sundays, and then there is a
drive of four miles. The follow