fashionable that the most
austere Seniors are glad to qualify their reprobation by
applauding this review. I have agreed with the bookseller
publishing the _Miscellanies_ that he is to guarantee to you one
dollar on every copy he sells; and you are to have the total
profit on every copy subscribed for. The retail price [is] to be
$2.50. The cost of the work is not yet precisely ascertained.
The work will probably appear in six or seven weeks. We print
one thousand copies. So whenever it is sold you shall have one
thousand dollars.

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* Printed in the _Athenaeum,_ July 8, 1882.
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The _French Revolution_ continues to find friends and purchasers.
It has gone to New Orleans, to Nashville, to Vicksburg. I have
not been in Boston lately, but have determined that nearly or
quite eight hundred copies should be gone. On the 1st of July I
shall make up accounts with the booksellers, and I hope to make
you the most favorable returns. I shall use the advice of
Barnard, Adams, & Co. in regard to remittances.

When you publish your next book I think you must send it out to
me in sheets, and let us print it here contemporaneously with the
English edition. The _eclat_ of so new a book would help the
sale very much.

But a better device would be, that you should embark in the
"Victoria" steamer, and come in a fortnight to New York, and in
twenty-four hours more to Concord. Your study arm-chair,
fireplace, and bed, long vacant, auguring expect you. Then you
shall revise your proofs and dictate wit and learning to the New
World. Think of it in good earnest. In aid of your friendliest
purpose, I will set down some of the facts. I occupy, or
_improve,_ as we Yankees say, two acres only of God's earth; on
which is my house, my kitchen-garden, my orchard of thirty young
trees, my empty barn. My house is now a very good one for
comfort, and abounding in room. Besides my house, I have, I
believe, $22,000, whose income in ordinary years is six percent.
I have no other tithe or glebe except the income of my winter
lectures, which was last winter $800. Well, with this income,
here at home, I am a rich man. I stay at home and go
abroad at my own instance. I have food, warmth, leisure, books,
friends. Go away from home, I am rich no longer. I never have a
dollar to spend on a fancy. As no wise man, I suppose, ever was
rich in the sense of _freedom to spend,_ because of the
inundation of claims, so