i875-j CLIMBING AND INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS. 501 



" You ask about my book, and all that I can say is that 

 I am ready to commit suicide ; I thought it was decently 

 written, but find so much wants rewriting, that it will not be 

 ready to go to printers for two months, and will then make 

 a confoundedly big book. Murray will say that it is no use 

 publishing in the middle of summer, so I do not know what 

 will be the upshot ; but I begin to think that every one who 

 publishes a book is a fool." 



The book was published on July 2nd, 1875, an d 2700 

 copies were sold out of the edition of 3000.] 



