chapter IV 



The manner in which Mr. Darwin met " Evolution, 

 Old and New." 



BY far the most important notice of " Evolution, Old and 

 New," was that taken by Mr. Darwin himself ; for I 

 can hardly be mistaken in believing that Dr. Krause's article 

 would have been allowed to repose unaltered in the pages 

 of the well-known German scientific journal, Kosmos, 

 unless something had happened to make Mr. Darwin feel 

 that his reticence concerning his grandfather must now 

 be ended 



Mr. Darwin, indeed, gives me the impression of wishing 

 me to understand that this is not the case. At the beginning 

 of this year he wrote to me, in a letter which I will presently 

 give in full, that he had obtained Dr. Krause's consent 

 for a translation, and had arranged with Mr. Dallas, be- 

 fore my book was " announced." " I remember this," he 

 continues, " because Mr. Dallas wrote to tell me of the 

 advertisement." But Mr. Darwin is not a clear writer, 

 and it is impossible to say whether he is referring to the 

 announcement of " Evolution, Old and New " — in which 

 case he means that the arrangements for the translation 

 of Dr. Krause's article were made before the end of 

 February 1879, and before any public intimation could 

 have reached him as to the substance of the book on which 

 I was then engaged — or to the advertisements of its being 

 now published, which appeared at the beginning of May ; 

 in which case, as I have said above, Mr. Darwin and his 

 friends had for some time had full opportunity of knowing 

 what I was about. I beheve, however, Mr. Darwin to 



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