He acted as a special correspondent for "The Times" at the Paris exhibition of 1867, and again sent interesting letters to "The Times" from Paris during the siege of 1870. In 1868 he edited an abridgment of Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa." Afterwards he wrote a treatise on gastronomy, based on the famous work of Brillat-Savarin; to it he attached the pseudonym of A. Kettner, and the title was "Kettner's Book of the Table, a Manual of Cookery," 1877. More recently he was engaged on a new edition of François de La Rochefoucauld's "Maxims," and he wrote an elaborate article on that work, which was unpublished at the time of his death.