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 our countries, and I had to name a new land common to us—the Sargentine Republic.

"Teas on the Terrace and dinners at the House remain as affectionate memories of those otherwise rather frigid and formal precincts. In his own home those amenities had their full flowering; but of this it must be the happiness of others to speak.

"A busy man, he had, of course, time for everything he wanted to do—generally a kindness the some one. No one of my acquaintance would take more trouble than he to serve a friend, or a friend's friend, and it must have been a constant joy to him that the great cause with which his name is associated was one by which the sum total of the World's store of kindness is likely to be increased. To be genial and io be genuine—by his double perogativeprerogative [sic] he lives in my Memory as a man of men."

To this appreciative friend, H. H. wrote many letters. The one here given makes light allusion to a paragraph of banter (presumably Mr Meynell's in "The Daily Chronicle" about H. H.'s friend, Thomas Sidney Cooper, R.A., whose name and letters were worked into an anagram:

[Mr Meynell admits himself the quoter but not the author of the anagram.]

House of Commons, 14th August 1910.

I am delighted to hear that you are in London.

When I am tired and want a refreshing chat I walk over to the Pall Mall Club hoping to meet you, but I am not often successful.

What colossal coolness! I could not sleep after