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of your achievement is that it extracts this expression of 

 admiration from a poor devil whose brains and body are 

 in a colloid state, and who is off to Brighton for a day 

 or two this afternoon. 



God be with thee, my son, and strengthen the contents 

 of thy gall-bladder ! Ever thine, T. H. HUXLEY. 



P.S. Seriously, I am glad that at last a protest has 

 been raised against the process of anonymous self-praise 

 to which our friend is given. I spoke to Smith the 

 other day about that dose of it in the " Quarterly " article 

 on Spirit-rapping. 



VOL. II 



