298 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



LONDON, February i6 t 1872. 



MY DEAR YOUMANS: The difficulties you describe re- 

 specting the arrangements for publication in an American 

 magazine in such way that the requirements as to date 

 may be duly met, both for such magazine and the Contem- 

 porary, seem to me almost insurmountable. Your Ameri- 

 can custom of issuing a fortnight before date seems to 

 make anything like simultaneous publication out of the 

 question. Either your American magazine must be a fort- 

 night behind the American edition of the Contemporary, 

 or a fortnight before it, and such an arrangement seems 

 to me certain to be negatived by the one or the other, as 

 the case may be. Indeed, I should hardly like to ask Stra- 

 han to agree to an arrangement under which the articles 

 should appear in America a fortnight before the Contem- 

 porary arrived there. 



Under these circumstances I see no other way of meet- 

 ing the difficulty than that of publication through some 

 other medium than a monthly periodical. I called two 

 days ago on Smalley, to ask him whether it was worth 

 while to make the proposal to the Tribune. He thought 

 it was, saying that from time to time they issue extra 

 sheets, and that it might not improbably be arranged that 

 the successive chapters should appear in them. Under 

 such an arrangement the difficulty as to date would almost 

 disappear. The publication in the Tribune might be al- 

 most simultaneous with the American issue of the Con- 

 temporary. 



I am just about to commence the first chapter for the 

 Contemporary. It will appear on the ist of April. This, 

 of course, negatives my arrangement with an American 

 magazine. If you can arrange with the Tribune, well and 

 good. If not, the scheme of American publication must, I 

 suppose, drop. 



Since I wrote to you, one of the chief Berlin publishers 



