63 THE LETTER THAT 



PROMPTED THIS BOOK 



farms by the municipalities, which they might 

 conduct profitably on ordinary business prin- 

 ciples." 



WRITE A NEW BOOK! 



" To the making of books there is no end," 

 but it is books, and particularly such practical 

 ones as yours, that educate the public to the 

 needs of their conditions. I should suggest 

 that you write another book on this subject. It 

 must be shorter in order that even he who is 

 busy would start to peruse it; that even " he who 

 runs may read." That book ought to sell for 

 little money. It ought to notice your " Three 

 Acres and Liberty," so that those who read the 

 smaller book and find that they are interested, 

 and, like Oliver Twist, want more, should get 

 the first book as a second dose the heavier one. 



The new book should answer the old ques- 

 tion: "Who are they that shall go?" And if 

 the public will but take notice and heed, they 

 will give the answer that Moses did: "We will 

 go with our young and with our old; with our 

 sons and with our daughters; with our flocks 

 and with our herds we will go." 



