374 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



would be very much better. The worst of you is, the 

 moment you get a little extra strength you use it up too 

 fast. Pray take a good long holiday instead of your short 

 ones. As I have often urged upon you, it is an economy 

 of time in the end. 



I am rather amused at your proposing to tempt me 

 over early in August by Canadian salmon fishing. The 

 suggestion has its temptations, but I have a strong im- 

 pression as to the terrible infliction of mosquitoes and other 

 kinds of flies, of which I am rather intolerant, and of which 

 I remember reading as entailing great irritation on those 

 who are led to Canada by the prospect of sport. I like to 

 take my pleasure neat. If the drawbacks are considerable 

 I would rather not have it at all. My present intention is 

 rather to postpone until the last ten days of August my 

 voyage, so as to arrive in New York about the end of the 

 month. My friend Potter, with whom I have just been 

 staying, and with whom I consulted, has been many times 

 over with you, and he recommends me to go forthwith to 

 the North and to spend the first week or ten days in seeing 

 Niagara and something of Canada, so as to avoid the heat, 

 which is still considerable in the early part of September. 



You say respecting your lungs that you ''hope some 

 tolerable soundness may be regained before the cold 

 weather is upon us." By all means do not simply hope, but 

 take the most strenuous measures for insuring this result. 



I am glad that you like the two chapters on The 

 Militant Type and The Industrial Type. They are, in fact, 

 the culminating chapters of the part, and, indeed, of the 

 whole work, in point of importance. 



The next extract which I take from Spencer, re- 

 plying to a letter from Youmans giving an account of 

 the progress of the agitation for international copy- 

 right, is full of profound wisdom : 



