444 CORRESPONDENCE. [1858, 
TO R. W. CHURCH. 
June 1, 1858. 
Your gift of the “Oxford Essays” came to me, and 
was partly read with much interest before the arrival 
of your kind letter of the 31st March. Many thanks 
for both. 
I know too little of French literature, early or late, 
but I admire your article for its neat and delicate de- 
lineation and discrimination of character. I read with 
interest, not unmingled with concern, Baden Powell’s 
and Wilson’s articles. The latter person I heard 
preach one of the Bampton lectures at Oxford, 1851. 
Into what will the latitudinarian school, if I may so 
eall it, develop at Oxford ? 
Gladstone’s article I have not had time to read yet, 
nor his large work, which probably will reach us pres- 
ently, through our book club, — I hope at a time when 
I have more leisure than now. 
Last week the publishers, at my request, sent to 
Triibner & Company, American booksellers (12 or 20) 
Paternoster Row, a copy of a new and more elementary 
book! of mine than the one you are pleased to com- 
pliment. I intended that as a kind of horn-book, 
which Dr. Hooker insists it is not; and as something 
more simple was wanted here, to lead the way both to 
the “ Lessons” and especially to the “ Manual,” which 
is rather strong for beginners, I have tried again, and 
you will see the result. Ishould have made the little 
“ Popular Flora” fuller if the publishers had allowed 
more room. 
Having last year reédited my ‘“ Botanical Text- 
book ” (of which, to complete your set, a copy is also 
sent to you, through Triibner), I have now done my 
1 How Plants Grow. 
