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of the teacher. He takes pupils, and follows the business 

 of instruction, and is strong in his blind and absurd rules, 

 so that I have made good proficiency in his hands. Un- 

 fortunately, bad habits being worse than no habits, and not 

 being very plastic myself, I get on slowly, but have re- 

 covered some of the facility in execution which I had thirty 

 years ago, and am making practice already a source of 

 considerable amusement. My only difficulty is that I can- 

 not get the time needed. 



Your papers have been received with general expres- 

 sions of interest and commendation, but there have been 

 no notices so full as to be worth sending. Peirce (of the 

 Logic, you know) was so pleased with the article on 

 Trophies that he bought the whole set of Descriptive 

 Sociologies. 



