TJic Popular Science Monthly. 299 



(Dunckcr) has written to propose a translation of the 

 cholo-y. Probably it will be arranged that some other 

 translator will execute this while Dr. Vetter is executing 

 First Principles and the Biology. 



Under the circumstances'you name, I think you are quite 

 right in not commencing at present the contemplated maga- 

 zine. It will be better to wait until all the circumstances 

 are favourable and until you have had leisure for laying 

 out your plans completely, especially as meanwhile you 

 have quite enough to do in preparing for your great liter- 

 ary scheme. 



You do not in either letter give me any account of your- 

 self. How is it you have not yet got an amanuensis, as I 

 urged you to do ? You will inevitably break down if you 

 don't economize your energies. 



Ever yours, HERBERT SPENCER. 



NEW YORK, March 8, 1872. 



MY DEAR SPENCER: Your letter regarding the articles 

 came the other day and has much perplexed me. I had 

 arranged for their publication in the Galaxy, which has now 

 a large circulation and is a first-rate medium for such a 

 purpose. Briefly, neither the Atlantic nor Harper's were 

 available for the purpose. The Galaxy has forty thousand 

 circulation, and for the past year has been dipping a good 

 deal into serious discussions. I regret having said any- 

 thing about simultaneous publication, as I might have 

 known that the Contemporary would not be issued here be- 

 fore it was in England. Our periodicals have to be printed 

 early to transport them to distant places, but they are not 

 published until the 2oth, and therefore cannot reach Eng- 

 land before the first of the ensuing month. Besides, it is a 

 common and regular thing to publish articles here in this 

 manner although, of course, from English magazines that 

 are not reproduced here. 



If you make no regular arrangement the articles will be 



