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Well, all looked pretty well, when, lo, we found that a second 

 New York publishing house had announced a reprint also I 

 I wrote then to both New York publishers, asking them to 

 give way to the author and his reprint of a revised edition. 

 I got an answer from the Harpers that they withdraw from 

 the Appletons that they had got the book out (and the next 

 day I saw a copy) ; but that, " if the work should have any 

 considerable sale, we certainly shall be disposed to pay the 

 author reasonably and liberally." 



The Appletons being thus out with their reprint, the Bos- 

 ton house declined to go on. So I wrote to the Appletons 

 taking them at their word, offering to aid their reprint, to 

 give them the use of the alterations in the London reprint, as 

 soon as I find out what they are, &c. &c. And I sent 

 them the first leaf, and asked them to insert in their future 

 issue the additional matter from Butler,* which tells just 

 right. So there the matter stands. If you furnish any mat- 

 ter in advance of the London third edition, I will make them 

 pay for it. 



I may get something for you. All got is clear gain ; but 

 it will not be very much, I suppose. 



Such little notices in the papers here as have yet appeared 

 are quite handsome and considerate. 



I hope next week to get printed sheets of my review from 

 New Haven, and send [them] to you, and will ask you to 

 pass them on to Dr. Hooker. 



To fulfil your request, I ought to tell you what I think 

 the weakest, and what the best, part of your book. But this 

 is not easy, nor to be done in a word or two. The best part, 

 I think, is the whole, i. e. its plan and treatment, the vast 

 amount of facts and acute inferences handled as if you had a 



but yet in such terms that it is in fact a fine advertisement ! " This seems 

 to refer to a lecture given before the Mercantile Library Association. 



* A quotation from Butler's 'Analogy/ on the use of the word natural, 

 which in the second edition is placed with the passages from Whewell and 

 Bacon on p. li, opposite the title-page. 



