Popular Education^ atid Other Matters. 227 



in this country, and am not going to have it stereotyped 

 at any rate, as the American argument must be very differ- 

 ent. I shall do what I can with it and let it go. 



The " highest names " to which allusion is here 

 made were those of Liebig, Tyndall, Henfrey, Hux- 

 ley, Herschel, and Paget, whose essays were gathered 

 together in Youmans's volume, published under the 

 general title. The Culture demanded by Modern Life. 

 After his return to America, late in the autumn of 

 1866, he added a contribution from Dr. Draper, and 

 summed up his own views in the Introduction on 

 Mental Discipline in Education, which was perhaps 

 the most finished piece of work that ever came from 

 his pen. It is reprinted entire in the present volume."^ 

 The book, published in the spring of 1867, was re- 

 ceived with favour ; and there can be no doubt that 

 its contents, in this connected form, were vastly more 

 influential for good than in the separate and narrow 

 fields of their original issue. 



The following extracts from letters have interest in 

 connection with this book, as also with other matters, 

 personal and general : 



37 Queen's Gardens, Bayswater, W., January 14, 1867. 



My dear Youmans: I have been looking for a letter 

 for some little time past, telling me how you are going on ; 

 but I suppose lecturing has carried you away into the West, 

 and is absorbing all your time. 



Macmillan delayed for a long time the issue of your 

 volume of Essays. Why, I don't know, unless business 

 policy dictated the delay. We did not get our respective 

 copies until the beginning of January. The volume looks 



* See below, pp. 399-450. 



