i860.] DR. GRAY'S CRITICISMS. 65 



We'll, all looked pretty well, when, lo, we found that a second 

 New York publishing house had announced a reprint also I 

 I wrote then to both New York publishers, asking them to 

 give way to the author and his reprint of a revised edition. 

 I got an answer from the Harpers that they withdraw — from 

 the Appletons that they had got the book out (and the next 

 day I saw a copy); but that, "if the work should have any 

 considerable sale, we certainly shall be disposed to pay the 

 author reasonably and liberally." 



The Appletons being tjius out with their reprint, the Bos- 

 ton house declined to go on. So I wrote to the Appletons 

 taking them at their word, offering to aid their reprint, to 

 give them the use of the alterations in the London reprint, as 

 soon as I find out what they are, &c. &c. And I sent 

 them the first leaf, and asked them to insert in their future 

 issue the additional matter from Butler,* which tells just 

 right. So there the matter stands. If you furnish any mat- 

 ter in advance of the London third edition, I will make them 

 pay for it. 



I may get something for you. All got is clear gain ; but 

 it will not be very much, I suppose. 



Such little notices in the papers here as have yet appeared 

 are quite handsome and considerate. 



I hope next week to get printed sheets of my review from 

 New Haven, and send [them] to you, and will ask you to 

 pass them on to Dr. Hooker. 



To fulfil your request, I ought to tell you what I think 

 the weakest, and what the best, part of your book. But this 

 is not easy, nor to be done in a word or two. The best part, 

 I think, is the whole, i. e. its plan and treatment, the vast 

 amount of facts and acute inferences handled as if you had -a 



but yet in such terms that it is in fact a fine advertisement ! " This seems 

 to refer to a lecture given before the Mercantile Library Association. 



* A quotation from Butler's ' Analogy,' on the use of the word natural, 

 which in the second edition is placed with the passages from Whewell and 

 Bacon on p. n, opposite the title-page. 



