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as "lovely", that I am obliged to hunt it up in concordances and in the poems to which they relate, and scarcely a day passes that I do not resort, one or twice, to the quotations in the Oxford Dictionary. Unfortunately for me, that work does not seem to have been designed for such defectives as I am, and familiar quotations, which have oft-times had decisive influence upon the shade of meaning, the associations of words are distinctly avoided there. I do not think I ever reflect in words: I employ visual diagrams, firstly, because this way of thinking is my natural language of self-communion, and secondly, because I am convinced that it is the best system for the purpose. But there is nothing fanciful about my diagrams. I do not, for example, see numbers with colours [?] attached to them and placed upon some curves; and it perfectly astounds me to find how useful some [?] are able