"  \\t1i  July. — Lunched  with  Lady  Galloway,  and  down
by  the  afternoon  train  to  Canterbury  to  stay  with  Guy
Wyndham  and  his  wife,  who  are  quartered  there.  They
have  a  very  beautiful  child,  a  boy  called  George.
"  \2t1i  July. — With  Guy  to  see  the  Cathedral.  I  am  dis-
appointed with  it,  after  all  Morris  told  me — that  is,  with
the  inside,  which  has  been  scraped  out  of  most  of  its
interest.  Only  the  tombs  are  splendid,  especially  that  of
the  Black  Prince.  The  tower  outside,  seen  from  the  cloisters,


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is  grand,  and  I  have  arrived  just  in  time  to  see  these  and
the  chapter  house  unspoiled.  '  If  you  had  come  a  week
later,'  said  the  verger,  '  you  would  have  found  the  whole  a
mass  of  scaffolding.'  Dean  Farrar,  who  wants,  Morris  says,
to  be  made  a  Bishop,  is  bent  on  scraping  and  destroying  all
that  has  hitherto  escaped,  a  hideous  madness  of  destruction
nothing  can  prevent.
"  In  the  evening  back  to  London,  and  dined  with  the
Morrises,  to  wish  him  good-bye,  as  he  sails  for  Norway
next  week.  The  garden  at  Kelmscott  House  is  lovely  with
hollyhocks.
"  i  %th  July. — To  the  Horse  Show  at  the  Crystal  Palace,
where  Mesaoud  has  taken  first  Arab  Prize,  Meijliss  second.
This  is  satisfactory,  though  in  truth  no  great  triumph,  see-
ing \vhat  a  poor  competition  it  was.
"  \jtJi  July. — Went  to  see  Bowles  and  consult  him  about
Egyptian  affairs,  and  as  to  bringing  forward  the  case  of
Rhodes'  220  Soudanese,  which  certainly  ought  to  be  done.
Bowles  has  made  for  himself  by  his  cleverness  a  certain
position  in  the  House  of  Commons,  and  I  would  rather  he
took  the  case  up  than  the  Radicals.
