8 January 1866 – 14 January 1866

Ride to Brockenhurst — sudden snow- storm, careering between the trees and across the road like a charge of wild cavalry ; wraps us in winter, clears ofF. Froude writes apologetically about the review in Fraser. {N.B. — The article was by a Scotch lawyer named Skelton, at whose house near Edinburgh Froude is in the habit of putting up.) Lewes's Goethe — don't like it. L.'s opinions on Goethe's works occupy much space, and might be almost wholly spared.