CHAPTER III. 



WHAT LED TO THE SUCCESS CONTINUED. 



WITH all before it that has now been detailed, what could 

 the public be expected to think ? The most powerful 

 scientific trumpets that, in these islands, could be blown, 

 were blown before the book. The most powerful popular 

 trumpets that, in these islands, could be blown, were blown 

 after the book. And now what new, strange, and won- 

 derful discovery the book itself described, that new, strange, 

 and wonderful discovery, another man, a great man, a 

 scientific man, an expert an expert who had been himself 

 to see corroborated and confirmed. And new, strange, 

 and wonderful indeed, the discovery was. All life that 

 was on this earth, in the air above it, or in the waters 

 under it elephants and mice, minnows and whales, 

 vultures, sparrows, and midges had come, all of them, 

 the one out of the other ; and man we ourselves were 

 just the descendants of monkeys ! What could be 

 expected for such a book, if not all but a universal rush 

 to buy? Mr. Murray printed no fewer than 1250 

 copies of it, not one of which was left in his shop the 

 very first day, and he made haste to throw off 3000 

 copies more ! 



And how did the public find the book ? I do not 

 suppose that any one will pretend that it is read now ; 

 and I do not suppose that any one will pretend that it 



