The Feast of All Saints. Went to Holy Communion. The bliss of a free day! Wrote to Joe and Fräulein Engelmann, piano and harmony, and settled down to enjoy myself. Finished ‘The Blindness of Dr. Gray’. I enjoyed it immensely. It taught me what wonders a good book can do, from every standpoint. The gypsies, and again Irish peasant life, have been wonderfully portrayed. – Yesterday Mám was speaking about a book which Mr. Horgan has containing extracts from great men’s writing about the war. It is extraordinary how bigoted and biased are such men as Chesterton, Wells, etc. They ought to know better. Some of the extracts were atrocious. Rode to Markie but he was out. Drew up a plan of hall for Mám’s concert. Worked at Austrian stamps and read. What I call unalloyed pleasure!
