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not be desirable to change the covers and print " D. Ap- 

 pleton & Co., New York," thereon instead ? The copies 

 of your other work will be brought from Ticknor & Fields 

 to New York, as they have declared they cannot sell them. 

 Allow me to suggest that the terms Mr. Appleton proposes 

 for the Education — ten per cent of the sales to the author 

 after preliminary expenses are paid — is all that I receive, 

 and the usual rate here, except where a popular author can 

 dictate terms. 



And now, dear sir, I pray you do not think of me as 

 having officiously thrust myself into your business. Mat- 

 ters seemed to have "opened," as the Friends say, and I 

 "felt required " to take hold. If in the slightest manner I 

 can contribute to advance your interests it will be an un- 

 speakable pleasure, more especially when I remember that 

 in so doing I am serving the public in the most efficient 

 manner in my power. I hope the course things have taken 

 will not be unsatisfactory to you nor prove a hindrance to 

 your valuable projects. 



With best wishes for the restoration of your health, I 

 am, yours most truly, E. L. Youmans. 



As a result of these negotiations the Appletons 

 presently undertook to issue the philosophical series 

 in parts, concurrently with the publication in London. 

 They^ also published a reprint of Social Statics, with 

 a portrait of Mr. Spencer furnished by Mr. Manning. 

 A selection from the Essays, Scientific, Political, and 

 Speculative, was afterward published, under the title, 

 Illustrations of Universal Progress. This was a happy 

 thought; for the general reader has a mind of very 

 limited capacity, and usually likes to take his philoso- 

 phy in morsels, so that doubtless many persons were 

 able to obtain some notion of evolution in this way 

 who would have been simply wearied by the mag- 



