Mr.Champlin one day told me that Mr.
Scribner had read the book and would like very much to publish it for general circulation upon his own account, subject to a royalty.
The vain author is easily persuaded that what he has done is meritorious, and I consented.

[Every year this still nets me a small sum in royalties.

And thirty years have gone by, 1912.] The letters I received upon the publication[37] of it were so numerous and some so gushing that my people saved them and they are now bound together in scrapbook form, to which additions are made from time to time.

The number of invalids who have been pleased to write me, stating that the book had brightened their lives, has been gratifying.

Its reception in Britain was cordial; the "Spectator" gave it a favorable review.