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his work as lecturer re-enforced each other, and thus 

 his capacity for usefulness was much increased. 



When Mr. Spencer's book on Education failed to 

 find favour in Boston, the Appletons took it, and thus 

 presently secured the management of the philosoph- 

 ical series. This brought Youmans into permanent re- 

 lations with Spencer and his work, as begins to appear 

 in the following letter : 



NEW YORK, October 5, 1860. 



MY DEAR SIR : I received your kind letter of Septem- 

 ber nth, and was grieved to hear of your unusually dis- 

 turbed health. I trust it is not to continue. My apology 

 for intruding upon you now is, that after the arrangement 

 had been effected Mr. Silsbee had not time to send a letter 

 by the steamer to-day, and I therefore write in his place. 

 Mr. Silsbee probably informed you that Ticknor & Fields 

 declined to publish the book on Education. He further- 

 more said there was no chance in Boston, and delegated 

 me to arrange, if possible, in New York. He did not re- 

 strict me to specific terms, but as the work had be-en gen- 

 erously offered to Ticknor & Fields upon their own condi- 

 tions, he committed it to me in the same liberal spirit. 

 From mixed considerations I was anxious that the Apple- 

 tons should publish the book. There is more import in their 

 imprint than in that of any other house on this side of the 

 Atlantic. They have been established nearly half a cen- 

 tury, and have won a pre-eminent reputation for sterling 

 and valuable books. I therefore thought it would be well- 

 indeed, best for the book itself, and also as an introduc- 

 tion of its author to our people; and, besides, the firm have 

 treated me with great personal kindness, and I was anxious 

 they should have the good fortune to publish the book. 

 Furthermore, I have myself put forth some trifles in the 

 way of science for the multitude, and I was ambitious that 

 they might go in company with your masterly exposition 



