Ch. XIII.] REVIEWS AND CRITICISMS, 1860. 243 



and brings forward well all the difficulties. It quizzes me 

 quite splendidly by quoting the Anti-Jacobin versus my Grand- 

 father. You are not alluded to, nor, strange to say, Huxley ; 



and I can plainly see, here and there, *s hand. The 



concluding pages will make Lyell shake in his shoes. By 

 Jove, if he sticks to us, he will be a real hero. Good-night. 

 Your well-quizzed, but not sorrowful, and affectionate friend, 



CD. 

 I can see there has been some queer tampering with the 

 review, for a page has been cut out and reprinted. 



The following extract from a lettor of Sept. 1st, 1860, is of 

 interest, not only as showing that Lyell was still conscientiously 

 working out his conversion, but also and especially as illus- 

 trating the remarkable fact that hardly any of my father's 

 critics gave him any new objections — so fruitful had been his 

 ponderings of twenty years : — 



"I have been much interested by your letter of the 28th, 

 received this morning. It has delighted me, because it demon- 

 strates that you have thought a good deal lately on Natural 

 Selection. Few things have surprised me more than the entire 

 paucity of objections and difficulties new to me in the published 

 reviews. Your remarks are of a different stamp and new to 

 me. 



0. D. to Asa Gray. [Hartfield, Sussex] July 22nd [I860]. 



My dear Gray, — Owing to absence from home at water-cure 

 and then having to move my sick girl to whence I am now 

 writing, I have only lately read the discussion in Proc. 

 American Acad.,* and now I cannot resist expressing my 

 sincere admiration of your most clear powers of reasoning. As 

 Hooker lately said in a note to me, you are more than any one 

 else the thorough master of the subject. I declare that you 

 know my book as well as I do myself; and bring to the 

 question new lines of illustration and argument in a manner 

 which excites my astonishment and almost my envy ! f I 



* April 10th, 1860 Dr. Gray criticised in detail "several of the 

 positions taken at the preceding meeting by Mr. [J. A.] Lowell, Prof. 

 Bowen and Prof. Agassiz." It was reprinted in the Aihenxum, Aug. 4th, 

 1860. 



f On Sept. 26th, 1860, he wrote in the same sense to Gray : — " You 

 never touch the subject without making it clearer. I look at it as even 

 more extraordinary that you never say a word or use an epithet whioh 

 does not express fully my meaning. Now Lyell, Hooker, and others, 

 who perfectly understand my book, yet sometimes use expressions to 

 which I demur." 



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