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than is reasonable. I am quite content, and do not care how 

 much I may be pitched into. If by any chance you should 

 hear who wrote the article in the Pall Ma!!, do please tell 

 me ; it is some one who writes capitally, and who knows the 

 subject. I went to luncheon on Sunday, to Lubbock's, partly 

 in hopes of seeing you, and, be hanged to you, you were not 



there. 



Your cock-a-hoop friend, 



C. D. 



[Independently of the favourable tone of the able series 

 of notices in the Pa!! Mall Gazette (Feb. 10, 15, 17, 1868), 

 my father may well have been gratified by the following pas- 

 sages : 



''We must call attention to the rare and noble calmness 

 with which he expounds his own views, undisturbed by the 

 heats of polemical agitation .which those views have excited, 

 and persistently refusing to retort on his antagonists by ridi- 

 cule, by indignation, or by contempt. Considering the amount 

 of vituperation and insinuation which has come from the 

 other side, this forbearance is supremely dignified." 



And again in the third notice, Feb. 17 : 



" Nowhere has the author a word that could wound the 

 most sensitive self-love of an antagonist ; nowhere does he, in 

 text or note, expose the fallacies and mistakes of brother in- 

 vestigators ... but while abstaining from impertinent cen- 

 sure, he is lavish in acknowledging the smallest debts he may 

 owe ; and his book will make many men happy." 



I. am indebted to Messrs. Smith & Elder for the informa- 

 tion that these articles were written by Mr. G. H. Lewes.] 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down, February 23 [1868]. 



MY DEAR HOOKER, I have had almost as many letters 

 to write of late as you can have, viz. from 8 to 10 per diem. 



