will see that we have given it the most careful consideration. Although there are many good things to be said in its favor, yet upon the whole we do not feel inclined to publish the book for you. We regret," etc., etc., etc. and The best-known publisher in this country rejected the work as follows: "I am sure you will respect my 'conscientious scruples' against giving such enormous prominence to your studies. It would be against our traditions and unwritten rules to do so. We regret," etc. The foregoing has always been a riddle to the author; nor has he ever found any one who could reconcile these statements with the position which a great publishing house is presumed to occupy with respect both to its authors and the public. Again, the house that of all others should have seen this matter in its true bearings, after digressing upon the Aryanic Theory as already quoted (page 98), finally condemned the treatment and the theme as follows: "But apart from all this, the theory (?) does not seem to be presented in the best way, nor do the language and rhetoric appear to us to quite fit the subject. However, Mons. Taine, Victor Hugo, Dupin, Montalembert, Paradol, and numerous other aliens, quoted in the text, seem to have felt the Romance of this theme quite enough to justify my own humble enthusiasm for the Origin and Destiny of my own Race! Hence I am quite content to stumble along in their footsteps rather than be silent at the mandate of such "criticism"! Nor will I ever agree to sink the study of so grand a topic in some ponderous tome of learned "roots," in order that it may be entombed in musty libraries. This sub ject is worthy of being chained to the Altar, where our Race chained the Bible itself, in days gone by, so that all could read it, and "the best way" to present it is in the simple way that faith and conviction sees it; and moreover, if there be poetry therein, as all have found who ever caught its spirit, I defy Saxon pens tipped with belief to write thereon in any other strain than that in which their Prophets sang. And, finally, that I have not misjudged the spirit of this topic-as worthy of whatever rhetoric the Saxon language may encompassI need the kindly sympathy of no smoother pen, and the acknowledged rapport of no more trenchant critic and master in the premises, than those of Donald G. Mitchell (page 252) to attest. Another house queries, "How will it affect our reputation if we put our imprint upon such a book?" They are welcome to their "reputation ;" and as events turned out with them, I am thankful for their rejection, else it had certainly failed when they did! But enough. This Series of Studies has been successively offered to, and more or less promptly rejected by, the following well-known publishers, for reasons good and sufficient to themselves: The Baker and Taylor Publishing Co.; The Century Publishing Co.; Messrs. Harper and Brothers; Messrs. Cupples and Hurd; Messrs. Little, Brown and Co.; Messrs. Funk and Wagnalls; Messrs. A. C. McClurg and Co.; Messrs. Porter and Coates; Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons; Messrs. Cassell and Co.; etc., etc. This pilgrimage from house to house has consumed some three and one half years of valuable time, but not to no purpose. For after each successive rejection some little has been added, and new data come to the support of the Romance in which we all are actors. It has thus had the full benefit to be derived from the advice given by Horace in the Ars Poetica, since between times it has often lain upon my shelves, and when taken down for rereading had its rhythm mended, and its no doubt halting style emended. Judging, therefore, from my own past experience that it is useless to go a-begging any further from publisher to publisher, who see no money in the truth, if such a theme be truth, and convinced that there is no longer time enough to waste, I am resolved to put my own hand to the plough, and in the strength of the God of Israel drive it single-handed, at least through the first furrow. And I must do it thus single-handed; for, although not unknown to bookmakers, I have had the unusual experience, in this particular instance, of not receiving a single overture from any one to afford the work the friendly cover of their imprint, even if upon my part I would stand all the necessary expense of publication! 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