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assist in carrying out his great sociological project, which 

 I will explain to you when I return. 



It is now in my power to extend the scheme largely, 

 and now is the moment to do it. The series in five years 

 will run up to seventy-five or one hundred volumes. It 

 will be the world's popular cyclopaedia of reading science. 

 Spencer is delighted but half bewildered ; every once in a 

 while he breaks out, "Who would have thought such a 

 result would arrive from your first beginnings with me?" 

 The letter in the Times, of course, greatly pleases him.* 

 He says this whole movement is going to revolutionize the 

 position of English authors. 



LONDON, November 2, 1871. 



King proves to be our man a wide-awake, whole- 

 hearted fellow. The thing is now just as much a success 

 as a prospective thing can be, and I shall be easy, but there 

 has been so much to do which I alone can do that it has 

 worn upon me hard. I mean to take it easier, come what 

 will. I go by Paris to Berlin, and Spencer goes to Paris 

 with me. We expect to go to-morrow, if I can. The days 

 are crowded with incidents relating to the enterprise, but I 

 have neither time nor strength to write of them. I began 

 a letter to the Times on copyright, but have had to post- 

 pone it till I come back. 



PARIS, November 12, 1871. 



Things are still going prosperously with the interna- 

 tional scheme. France is committed, and I have just re- 

 ceived a French note from the publisher pledging ten 

 books from the ablest men in France. One of them will 

 soon be ready. Prof. Ribot, one of Spencer's translators, 

 who lives at Laval, two hundred miles away, came to Paris 

 to meet us. He has nearly done a book entitled Heredity : 

 A Psychological Study in first, its facts ; second, its laws ; 



* Mr. W. H. Appleton had just written an excellent letter on inter- 

 national copyright, which was published in the London Times. 



