Notwithstanding, however, the generally hostile, or more or less
contemptuous, reception which "Evolution, Old and New," met with,
there were some reviews--as, for example, those in the Field, {37a}
the Daily Chronicle, {37b} the Athenaeum, {37c} the Journal of
Science, {37d} the British Journal of Homaeopathy, {37e} the Daily
News, {37f} the Popular Science Review {37g}--which were all I could
expect or wish.



CHAPTER IV



The manner in which Mr. Darwin met "Evolution, Old and New."

By far the most important notice of "Evolution, Old and New," was
that taken by Mr. Darwin himself; for I can hardly be mistaken in
believing that Dr. Krause's article would have been allowed to repose
unaltered in the pages of the well-known German scientific journal,
Kosmos, unless something had happened to make Mr. Darwin feel that
his reticence concerning his grandfather must now be ended

Mr. Darwin, indeed, gives me the impression of wishing me to
understand that this is not the case. At the beginning of this year
he wrote to me, in a letter which I will presently give in full, that
he had obtained Dr. Krause's consent for a translation, and had
arranged with Mr. Dallas, before my book was "announced." "I
remember this," he continues, "because Mr. Dallas wrote to tell me of
the advertisement." But Mr. Darwin is not a clear writer, and it is