Several editions of the book were printed to meet the request for copies.

Some notices of it and extracts got into the papers, and finally Charles Scribner's Sons asked to publish it for the market.

So "Round the World"[36] came before the public and I was at last "an author." [Footnote 36: _Round the World_, by Andrew Carnegie.

New York and London, 1884.] A new horizon was opened up to me by this voyage.

It quite changed my intellectual outlook.