Yes, I remember about that simultaning business, now. What an implacable memory you have got., for hanging onto embarrassing facts. Now as to this last article, it is wrote in the interests of science, & so I can’t make a sordid suggestion about it. If the North American will takes it, any swag you get above 50 cents a page will satisfy me; but if we can’t get in there, & have to go to any light & frivolous magazine, why, just you gut Ⓐemendation them again, as you did before. I reckon you are going to hell, anyhow, for that sort of conduct, so the bigger your record the better you will be received.

I am mighty sorry Mr. Dawson refuses. Of course I’ll go to Toronto, if Toronto is chosen; but I wish there was some small peddler of a publisher in Montreal who would be willing to serve. Yes, or a printer—the man who sets up the book there, for instance. I judge we ain’t going to get any publisher to do this thing for us; except, perhaps, Belford, who would take that opportunity to rush out a cheap edition & shove it over the border in spite of his previous promises to the contrary.

Yes, of course I will go to Toronto, if necessary; but I don’t hanker after it.

Your cablegram was exactly the thing—I would have thought of it myself, eventually.

It seems to me that if we are going to start out with Howells in the Tribune & House in the Atlantic, we go mighty well fixed. Howells’sⒶemendation review pleases me vastly. The praise & the dispraise sound equally candid & seincere; & both are stated so forcibly & backed up by such clear reasoning, that future reviewers will not find it difficult to get away from the influence exerted upon their minds by this critique. It is a mint-stamp; it will be hard to rub out.