March 25.—A note from Mr. Chapman, in which he asks me to undertake part of the Contemporary Literature for the Westminster Review.
April 18.—Came to town, to lodgings in Bayswater.
April 23.—Fixed on lodgings at East Sheen.
April 25.—Went to the British Museum.
April 28.—Finished article on "Weimar," for Fraser.
During this month George Eliot was finishing the translating and revising of Spinoza's "Ethics," and was still reading Scherr's book, Schrader's "German Mythology"—a poor book—"The Tempest," "Macbeth," "Niebelungenlied," "Romeo and Juliet," article on "Dryden" in the Westminster, "Reineke Fuchs," "Genesis of Science," Gibbon, "Henry V.," "Henry VIII.," first, second, and third parts of "Henry VI.," "Richard II."
May 2.—Came to East Sheen, and settled in our lodgings.
May 28.—Sent Belles-lettres section to Westminster Review. During May several articles were written for the Leader.
June 13.—Began Part IV. of Spinoza's "Ethics." Began also to read Cumming, for article in the Westminster. We are reading in the evenings now Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences," "The Odyssey," and occasionally Heine's "Reisebilder." I began the second book of the "Iliad," in Greek, this morning.
June 21.—Finished article on Brougham's "Lives of Men of Letters."