258 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



time for calm judgment are allowed. Then, too, your in- 

 tervals of relaxation are sufficiently long to admit of 

 absence. 



The following letter explains itself : 



37 QUEEN'S GARDENS, BAYSWATER, LONDON, W., NovembenS, 1868. 



MY DEAR SIR : Let me introduce to you my American 

 friend Dr. Youmans. He is over here to make certain 

 literary arrangements, which he will explain to you, and in 

 the success of which I feel much interest, as do also Hux- 

 ley, Tyndall, and many leading men whose names Dr. You- 

 mans can give you. 



That his project is an important one, and that there is 

 every likelihood of its being successfully carried out, I am 

 fully convinced. It is from no short or superficial acquaint- 

 ance with Dr. Youmans that I say this. Ever since 1860 he 

 has been working for me in the United States, and it is to 

 his self-sacrificing efforts that I owe the success which my 

 undertaking has had there. Hjs untiring devotion being 

 joined with extensive scientific knowledge and very sound 

 judgment in matters of business, he seems to me thoroughly 

 fitted to carry out the plan he proposes. 



If you can do anything to forward his views, either 

 directly or indirectly, you will greatly oblige me. 



Sincerely yours, HERBERT SPENCER. 



In December we find Youmans back in New York. 

 The first number of Appletons' Journal of Popular 

 Literature, Science, and Art was published April 3, 

 1869. Its editorial announcement was as follows : 



The publishing house by which the present Journal is 

 issued has been extensively engaged for nearly half a 

 century in the work of promoting general education and 

 diffusing information among the people of the United 



