satire. And he had another reason for not disclosing his name; he
remembered that as soon as curiosity about the authorship of
'Erewhon' was satisfied, the weekly sales fell from fifty down to
only two or three. But, as he always talked openly of whatever was
in his mind, he soon let out the secret of the authorship of 'The
Fair Haven', and it became advisable to put his name to a second
edition.

One result of his submitting the MS. of 'Erewhon' to Miss Savage was
that she thought he ought to write a novel, and urged him to do so.
I have no doubt that he wrote the memoir of John Pickard Owen with
the idea of quieting Miss Savage and also as an experiment to
ascertain whether he was likely to succeed with a novel. The result
seems to have satisfied him, for, not long after 'The Fair Haven', he
began 'The Way of All Flesh', sending the MS. to Miss Savage, as he
did everything he wrote, for her approval and putting her into the
book as Ernest's Aunt Alethea. He continued writing it in the
intervals of other work until her death in February, 1885, after
which he did not touch it. It was published in 1903 by Mr. R. A.
Streatfeild, his literary executor.

Soon after 'The Fair Haven' Butler began to be aware that his letter
in the 'Press', "Darwin among the Machines," was descending with
further modifications and developing in his mind into a theory about
evolution which took shape as 'Life and Habit'; but the writing of
this very remarkable and suggestive book was delayed and the painting
interrupted by absence from England on business in Canada. He had
been persuaded by a college friend, a member of one of the great
banking families, to call in his colonial mortgages and to put the
money into several new companies. He was going to make thirty or