CHAPTER XIV. 



THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 

 1872. Age, 57. 



ON Youmans's return to America after completing 

 arrangements for the International Series, it seemed 

 an opportune time to establish the magazine so long 

 considered which should be a popular medium of 

 communication between men of original thought and 

 research and the general reading public. This, as we 

 have seen, had been for many years one of his most 

 cherished projects. The experiment with Appletons' 

 Journal had failed, through no fault of his ; it was time 

 to try again. 



Between the International Series especially the 

 book on The Study of Sociology, which Mr. Spencer 

 was now writing for it and the starting of the Popu- 

 lar Science Monthly there was a curious causal con- 

 nection, which is shown in the following extracts : 



37 QUEEN'S GARDENS, BAYSWATER, LONDON, W., January 8, 1872. 

 MY DEAR YOUMANS: I have, as I proposed before you 

 left, arranged with Knowles for publication of the Study 

 of Sociology in the Contemporary in successive installments. 

 He and the publisher, Strahan, express themselves as re- 

 joicing to make the agreement. No difficulty appears to 

 arise respecting the simultaneous publication in America, 

 so long as it is understood that the publication in some 



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