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not be desirable to change the covers and print " D. Ap- 

 pleton & Co., New York," thereon instead ? The copies 

 of your other work will be brought from Ticknor & Fields 

 to New York, as they have declared they cannot sell them. 

 Allow me to suggest that the terms Mr. Appleton proposes 

 for the Education ten per cent of the sales to the author 

 after preliminary expenses are paid is all that I receive, 

 and the usual rate here, except where a popular author can 

 dictate terms. 



And now, dear sir, I pray you do not think of me as 

 having officiously thrust myself into your business. Mat- 

 ters seemed to have " opened," as the Friends say, and I 

 " felt required " to take hold. If in the slightest manner I 

 can contribute to advance your interests it will be an un- 

 speakable pleasure, more especially when I remember that 

 in so doing I am serving the public in the most efficient 

 manner in my power. I hope the course things have taken 

 will not be unsatisfactory to you nor prove a hindrance to 

 your valuable projects. 



With best wishes for the restoration of your health, I 

 am, yours most truly, E. L. YOUMANS. 



As a result of these negotiations the Appletons 

 presently undertook to issue the philosophical series 

 in parts, concurrently with the publication in London. 

 They also published a reprint of Social Statics, with 

 a portrait of Mr. Spencer furnished by Mr. Manning. 

 A selection from the Essays, Scientific, Political, and 

 Speculative, was afterward published, under the title, 

 Illustrations of Universal Progress. This was a happy 

 thought ; for the general reader has a mind of very 

 limited capacity, and usually likes to take his philoso- 

 phy in morsels, so that doubtless many persons were 

 able to obtain some notion of evolution in this way 

 who would have been simply wearied by the mag- 



