ch. xiii.] REVIEWS AND CRITICISMS, 1860. 237 



vaguely) on man. With respect to the races, one of my 

 best chances of truth has broken down from the impossi- 

 bility of getting facts. I have one good speculative line, 

 but a man must have entire credence in Natural Selection 

 before he will even listen to it. Psychologically, I have 

 done scarcely anything. Unless, indeed, expression of 

 countenance can be included, and on that subject I have 

 collected a good many facts, and speculated, but I do not 

 suppose I shall ever publish, but it is an uncommonly 

 curious subject. 



A few days later he wrote again to the same corre- 

 spondent : 



" What a grand immense benefit you conferred on me 

 by getting Murray to publish my book. I never till to-day 

 realised that it was getting widely distributed ; for in a let- 

 ter from a lady to-day to E., she says she heard a man en- 

 quiring for it at the Railway Station 1 1 1 at Waterloo 

 Bridge ; and the bookseller said that he had none till the 

 new edition was out. The bookseller said he had not read 

 it, but had heard it was a very remarkable book ! ! ! " 



C. D. to J. D. Hooker. Down, 14th [January, I860], 



I heard from Lyell this morning, and he 



tells me a piece of news. You are a good-for-nothing man ; 

 here you are slaving yourself to death with hardly a minute 

 to spare, and you must write a review on my book ! I 

 thought it * a very good one, and was so much struck with 

 it, that I sent it to Lyell. But I assumed, as a matter of 

 course, that it was Lindley's. Now that I know it is yours, 

 I have re-read it, and my kind and good friend, it has 

 warmed my heart with all the honourable and noble things 

 you say of me and it. I was a good deal surprised at Lindley 

 hitting on some of the remarks, but I never dreamed of you. 

 I admired it chiefly as so well adapted to tell on the readers 

 of the Gardeners' Chronicle ; but now I admire it in another 

 spirit. Farewell, with hearty thanks. . . . 



Asa Gray to J. D. Hoolcer. Cambridge, Mass., 

 January 5th, 1860. 



My dear Hooker, Your last letter, which reached me 

 just before Christmas, has got mislaid during the upturn- 



* Gardeners' Chronicle, 1860. Sir J. D. Hooker took the line of complete 

 impartiality, so as not to commit the editor, Lindley. 



