There is a great deal of power in Don Carlos. It is a piece that interests at once from the grandeur of the scene, the historical associations and the melancholy circumstances. The dialogue is simple, well sustained and highly interesting. The plot adroitly managed. On the whole I admire the manliness of Schiller’s style and wonder the Germans do not set it higher. I think it finer than Goethe’s.

I went to the Office where I was busy in Accounts and Diary. Then a walk, although it was a severely cold day. Ovid. Story of Acis and Galatea. Afternoon reading Mr. Dana’s Papers in which the allusions are so mysterious and the language so guarded, it is difficult to decipher the meaning. Evening, reading Faust aloud to my Wife. Mr. Brooks was out. Afterwards, Don Carlos. The day was cloudy. Miss Gray left us today.