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I pad bos now lived for IT'years in Kent, and id him say that nothfe him to ioave it for ft county (writes "A pis four miles out of Ffrom the windows of doea oil liis work, (OH his lawns upon a (• upward to a fringe t the horizon. M past gout in his >Ma a martyr to gout 9&ago up the Congo in was mode sustained HOW to him, and tho jj'fli# novels is now diciiworks over tho typecondensing, and tnpt is mad© from what 8b an original manufcftw composition are p and lunch, and aa * BOWS upon him, |*Morating itself from is sometimes gsiiigle^nag^o. If you Wi assumes that you probably rather KJWr own affairs or W about the sen. |W*c*d in various lang-' : literature, memoirs, fFy certain tecluiical gill that what appeals Bffl®Bity. Consequently, |jj>; from the self-oon-ptojftaimg to hear Mr present, for p B *onde e^ll C ' Car "P ' Anatole Franoo, of ana end many antimes, memoirs and is profound, to him in PpWfofth^ called is confat as a matter .does appo-.ir BBE's*'" * ®hvays in

one staying over the week-end, but a very quiet one. Both he and his wife are more or less incapacitated from getting about much—she through an injured knee and he through ilia gout —■ and they are generally at home. Mrs Conr.id, like her husband, knows (how to make a visitor welcome, and even a stranger is soon absolutely at ease in that delightful household. Mr Conrad is a man of no particular hobbies, if you except hia abiding interest in humanity (be feels deeply what happens in. the world, a genuine sentiI ment qualified by irony), his love of fine literature, and his passion, for the sea. He collects nothing; his study is full of books, hut only by dhance are they first or fine editions. In politics his chief concern is with Imperial and foreign affairs, and he is a keen student of the inter-relations of the European States, of the underlying reasons of great changes, and of the development of institutions and opinions. '