Tavistock Hotel. Mentioning to him the near completion of my volume, I asked his advice as to a title; the understanding being that this volume should be published by itself, the other to follow. After a little explanation as to the nature of the contents, he suggested the present title, and also the one to be given to the second volume, in harmony with the first. The suggestion turned out a success, and gave the work an individuality and prominence which no other title could have done. I also had Clark's assistance in revising the phraseology of the introductory chapters, and of some of the others.

I had the further advantage of Dr. Sharpey's assistance in revising the chapter on the Nervous System, as well as the physiological parts of the Senses and the Instincts. I had still to finish Compound and Constructive Association, during the summer term.

At the close of that term, I resigned the connexion with Bedford College, going in the recess to Scotland.

Autumn and Winter, 1854-55.

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mere. She was then in a very critical moment of business, brought about by John Chapman's bankruptcy. Her brother (with whom her relations were anything but amicable), William Rathbone Greig, and Dr. Hodgson-all of them creditors to Chapman-were bent upon getting the Westminster Review into their hands, to be an organ for their peculiar views on religion as well as general politics. Miss Martineau, on the other hand, backed up Chapman in retaining the management of the Review. For this end, she sent a message to her solicitor in London, to pay off in full the claims of all the three, so as to deprive them of any voice in the matter. Before I left, however, I found that things had been arranged in Chapman's favour. Miss Martineau's fixed idea was that the aim of the party, her brother in particular, was to crush her and Comte, with whom she was now identified by her published abstract of the Cours de Philosophie Positive. James Payn, the well-known novelist, was then residing in Windermere, and beginning his literary career by contributing to Chambersthrough Miss Martineau's introduction. His own reminiscences of this period of his life are full of Miss Martineau, but very inexact in circumstantials that I myself was privy to.

The rest of my holiday was spent in Scotland

partly in Edinburgh, and partly with Blake at Stobo. On returning to London in September, I took steps for getting the Psychology volume published. Mill gave me an introduction to his publisher Parker, who, in the beginning of December, expressed his willingness to publish the volume on the usual publishing conditions of half profits. The printing went on in the first months of 1855; and the book was ready for publication in the month of June.

Autumn and Winter, 1855-56.

My marriage took place in May, 1855; and after spending three months in Ross, Ilfracombe, and Redhill, we took lodgings for the winter in London; and there I proceeded with the studies requisite for commencing the final draft of the second volume. The difficulties of the commencement turned out to be considerable, notwithstanding all that had been already done. It was sometime, therefore, before I could incur the hazard of putting pen to paper, knowing that what was done must, for the present, be final. The nature of Will, in particular, had gone through many transformations, and must now take a final shape. The classification and delineation of the Emotions had necessarily been very arduous. I

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still resolved to carry out the Natural History method as far as possible, describing the emotions in detail.

Summer on the Rhine, 1856.

In the beginning of May, we set out for a tour on the Rhine, accompanied by Miss Helen Orme, who happened to be a proficient in German to the point of ready conversation. Going by steamer to Ostend, we made our way to Bonn, staying there a month. We were hospitably received by Professor Brandis, and saw also Professor Welcher, and the librarian of the University, Shaarschmidt, who has since become a philosophy professor. Visiting the library one afternoon, I saw Strauss sitting on a bench in the act of studying a book. He was merely on a visit, his home being at Heidelberg. Leaving Bonn, we ascended the Rhine to Mannheim, and thence crossed by rail to Heidelberg, where I received the greatest attention from Robert von Mohl, Professor of Politzei in the University. I had many interesting talks with him, as he spoke English fluently. He took me to see Baron Bunsen, then in retirement in a villa on the Neckar, a little above the town. Bunsen I found extremely unreserved in his conversation about his own diplomatic career in London, as well

as his studies on primeval history. He gave it as his opinion that the time necessary for the growth of our various existing languages demanded 20,000 years as the duration of the human race. Going next to Frankfort, we put up at the hotel at which, it appears, according to Professor Wallace, Schopenhauer regularly dined at the early table d'hôte dinner. Proceeding from Frankfort to Wiesbaden, we were deterred from remaining owing to the badness of the water, and took up our abode at Biebrich, by the palace of the Duke of Nassau. Here we began our descent of the Rhine, on the return home. We landed first at Coblentz, and stayed a few days, making a day's excursion to Ems, and visiting Ehrenbreitstein. From Coblentz, we went to Cologne, and, thence, took the steamer at one stretch to Rotterdam, which required us to spend a night on board. From Rotterdam, we made the voyage by steam to London, in twenty-two hours. This was in the end of July.

First Winter in Richmond, 1856-57.

Our next business was to find a permanent home in London or the neighbourhood, as most suitable to my occupation and prospects at the time. We found a cottage in Richmond, under