Fine day. Distribution as usual. Concert in the evening.

My time at the Office was taken up in a great degree by a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Kirk who had come into town for a settlement of their Summer wages Account. This took up a great deal of time.

Home where I began Alcestis over again. After dinner, coins and looked over parts of Cook’s Medallic History of Rome which is rather a superficial affair.

Mr. Brooks came in to tea and after it Mrs. Adams and I attended 156another concert of Mr. De Begnis. The music by himself and Russel, most of the latter old songs, the former is good as a comic performer. He sung an air from the Fanatico per la Musica very well, as also a duett from the Matrimonio Secreto.1 Strange that the Italians should be so musical a people. All other music sounds thin and poor, contrasted with their’s.