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an enormous disadvantage. Right here in Saratoga, for 

 example, they are organizing a free high school to be sup- 

 ported entirely by public taxes; the clergy lead in the 

 movement, and demand that the institution shall be co- 

 ordinated with our college system and arranged upon a 

 classical basis of Latin and Greek ; and if a person opens 

 his mouth in protest he is immediately knocked down with 

 Mill's classical argument, and that, too, by those people 

 who have never read another line of his writings and a year 

 ago would as soon have quoted Voltaire as Mill. Somehow 

 and by somebody that argument must be answered. If 

 anything appears in England that has any value as a criti- 

 cism of it, I will be greatly obliged if you will send it to 

 me. But I am wearying you. My wife and sister join me 

 in expressions of kind and sympathizing regard. 



37 QUEEN'S GARDENS, BAYSWATER, W., July 20, 1867. 



MY DEAR YOUMANS : People's blunders are perpetually 

 entailing on me all kinds of trouble and expense. A con- 

 siderable percentage of my time is taken up in rectifying 

 them. The last is a serious one. The statement on the 

 part of printer and binder that they had no stock of 

 Biology, Vol. I, has turned out to be a mistake on the part 

 of the binder, who has discovered that he had one hundred 

 and seventy-five copies. Thus my hurried order to send 

 off the stereotype plates at once will prove to be a need- 

 less and unfortunate one. If you have a sufficient stock to 

 last two or three months it will not matter, as the duplicate 

 stereotype plates can be at once executed and sent to you. 

 Of course, if the plates have not been dispatched before 

 this reaches you, you will retain them. 



I leave town for the season in the course of a few days, 

 and shall be at various places, mainly in Scotland. I shall, 

 however, keep Miss Shickle informed as to my whereabouts, 

 so that you may address to me at 37 Queen's Gardens, which, 

 indeed, will now be my permanent address. 



