‘I took Sir Frederick and Lady Abbott[19] to-day to the Infant School at Bracknell. They seemed to be much pleased, and so I am sure were the Infants, as their visitors treated them with sugar-plums and lemon-cakes, in return for a number of songs.... A translation of my _War and Peace_ has been made by Madame de Lambert, and is coming out in the _Musée des Enfants_,--under the name, I believe, of _Le Soldat Aveugle_.’