The Popular Science Monthly. 303 



August 21 1 1872. 



Chapter V has just come, and it is splendid. This 

 series is going to do a grand work ; it hits us every time 

 exactly where we live. The papers as they appear will be 

 extensively read, and, although we are in the midst of a 

 presidential convulsion, they are already attracting great 

 attention. The volume cannot fail to do sharp execution. 

 Have you any definite idea of its extent ? If so, I shall be 

 glad to know. There is a good deal of inquiry about the 

 Psychology. 



As soon as the sociological series breaks I mean to in- 

 troduce some parts of the Psychology into the Monthly, 

 the sales of which, I am happy to say, steadily continue. 

 I was prepared for a marked falling off during the furious 

 heat and business stagnation of midsummer, but the cir- 

 culation is well sustained, and there is a constant call for 

 back numbers. 



I posted to you a World two days ago, with the alleged 

 report of a European tourist on European philosophers. 

 You will find in it some novel and remarkable statements 

 concerning yourself and your friends. Our newspaper 

 press is simply damnable. " Interviewing " has come to be 

 a regular feature of it, and under its guise are put forth 

 the most preposterous inventions, while the extravagant 

 and the absurd are sure to be caught up and universally 

 circulated. But all this cannot be helped, but must be 

 taken philosophically. Fiske's lecture on the Composition 

 of Mind has been published in Hammond's Psychological' 

 Journal, published by the Appletons. John has gone in 

 pretty strong on Psychology. I will send it to you. My 

 sister is very well, and is working steadily at her second 

 book of Botany. The religious press is getting uneasy 

 about the Monthly, and beginning to threaten us. Ever 

 yours, E. L. YOUMANS. 



