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this was undertaken by M. Reinwald, with whom he con- 

 tinued to have pleasant relations as the publisher of many 

 of his books into French. 



He wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker : 



" I must enjoy myself and tell you about Mdlle. C. Rover, 

 who translated the Origin into French, and for whose second 

 edition I took infinite trouble. She has just now brought 

 out a third edition without informing me, so that all the 

 corrections, &c, in the fourth and fifth English editions are 

 lost. Besides her enormously long preface to the first edi- 

 tion, she has added a second preface abusing me like a pick- 

 pocket for Pangenesis, which of course has no relation to 

 the Origin. So I wrote to Paris ; and Reinwald agrees to 

 bring out at once a new translation from the fifth English 

 edition, in competition with her third edition. . . . This 

 fact shows that ' evolution of species ' must at last be spread- 

 ing in France." 



It will be well perhaps to place here all that remains to 

 be said about the Origin of Species. The sixth or final 

 edition was published in January 1872 in a smaller and 

 cheaper form than its predecessors. The chief addition was 

 a discussion suggested by Mr. Mivart's Genesis of Species, 

 which appeared in 1871, before the publication of the De- 

 scent of Man. The following quotation from a letter to 

 Wallace (July 9, 1871) may serve to show the spirit and 

 method in which Mr. Mivart dealt with the subject. " I 

 grieve to see the omission of the words by Mivart, detected 

 by Wright.* I complained to Mivart that in two cases he 

 quotes only the commencement of sentences by me, and 

 thus modifies my meaning ; but I never supposed he 

 would have omitted words. There are other cases of what 

 I consider unfair treatment." 



My father continues, with his usual charity and modera- 

 tion : 



" I conclude with sorrow that though he means to be 

 honourable, he is so bigoted that he cannot act fairly." 



In July 1871, my father wrote to Mr. Wallace : 



" I feel very doubtful how far I shall succeed in answer- 

 ing Mivart, it is so difficult to answer objectioDS to doubtful 



* The late Chauncey "Wright, in an article published in the North Ameri- 

 can Review, vol. cxiii. pp. 83, 84. Wright points out that the words omitted 

 are "essential to the point on which lie [Mr. Mivart] cites Mr. Darwin's au- 

 thority." It should De mentioned that the passage from which words are 

 omitted is not given within inverted commas by Mr. Mivart. 



