444 CORRESPONDENCE. [1858, 



TO R. W. CHURCH. 



June 1, 1858. 



Your gift of the " Oxford Essays " came to me, and 

 was partly read with much interest before the arrival 

 of your kind letter of the 31st March. Many thanks 

 for both. 



I know too little of French literature, early or late, 

 but I admire your article for its neat and delicate de- 

 lineation and discrimination of character. I read with 

 interest, not unmingled with concern, Baden Powell's 

 and Wilson's articles. The latter person I heard 

 preach one of the Bampton lectures at Oxford, 1851. 

 Into what will the latitudinarian school, if I may so 

 call it, develop at Oxford ? 



Gladstone's article I have not had time to read yet, 

 nor his large work, which probably will reach us pres- 

 ently, through our book club, I hope at a time when 

 I have more leisure than now. 



Last week the publishers, at my request, sent to 

 Triibner & Company, American booksellers (12 or 20) 

 Paternoster Row, a copy of a new and more elementary 

 book l of mine than the one you are pleased to com- 

 pliment. I intended that as a kind of horn-book, 

 which Dr. Hooker insists it is not ; and as something 

 more simple was wanted here, to lead the way both to 

 the " Lessons" and especially to the " Manual," which 

 is rather strong for beginners, I have tried again, and 

 you will see the result. I should have made the little 

 " Popular Flora " fuller if the publishers had allowed 

 more room. 



Having last year reedited my "Botanical Text- 

 book " (of which, to complete your set, a copy is also 

 sent to you, through Triibner), I have now done my 



1 How Plants Grow. 



