Fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening at home.

It was clear this morning after the heavy blow of last night. Office where I saved half an hour to begin Storch, Economie Politique. I have taken a very great liking to this writer and propose to study his style and thought. Read Hecuba.

Afternoon finish the first volume of Bancroft. I am afraid my dislike of his book springs out of my distrust of the man. Began a number of The London and Westminster Review sent me as particularly good, by Dr. Frothingham. The first article about Carlyle rouses my profound distaste. The style is artificial and the thought is very strained. Modern times do not appear to me to show the results which they pretend.

Evening at home, reading the letters of Horace Walpole,1 and finish the Lecture, which when I look it over gives me some misgivings.