incere interest in every human being.

Cleveland is speaking to Minna:--

"I thought over my former story, and saw that seeming more brave,
skilful, and enterprising than others had gained me command and
respect, and that seeming more gently nurtured and more civilized than
they had made them envy and hate me as a being of another species. _I
bargained with myself then, that since I could not lay aside my
superiority of intellect and education, I would do my best to disguise
and to sink, in the rude seaman, all appearance of better feeling and
better accomplishments._"

A similar policy is often quite as necessary in the society of
landsmen.

PART X.

_INTELLECTUAL HYGIENICS._

LETTER I.

TO A YOUNG AUTHOR WHILST HE WAS WRITING HIS FIRST BOOK.

Mr. Galton's advice to young travellers--That we ought to interest
ourselves in the _progress_ of a journey--The same rule applicable in
intellectual things--Women in the cabin of a canal boat--Working
hastily for temporary purposes--Fevered eagerness to get work
done--Beginners have rarely acquired firm intellectual habits--Knowing
the range of our own powers--The coolness of accomplished
artists--Advice given by Ingres--Balzac's method of work--Scott,
Horace Vernet, John Phillip--Decided workers are deliberate workers.

I read the other day, in Galton's "Art of Travel," a little bit which
concerns you and all of us, but I made the extract in my
commonplace-book for your benefit rather than my own, because the truth
it contains has been "borne in upon me" by my own experience, so that
what Mr. Galton says did not give me a new conviction, but only
confirmed me in an old one. He is speaking to explorers who have not
done so much in that way as he has himself, and though the subject of
his advice is the conduct of an exploring party (in the wilds of
Australia, for example) the advice itself is equally useful if taken
metaphorically, and applied to the conduct of intellectual labors and
explorations of all kinds.

"Interest yourself," says Mr. Galton, "chiefly in the progress of your
journey, and do not look forward to its end with eagerness. It is better
to think of a return to civilization, not as an end to hardship and a
haven from ill, but as a thing to be regretted, and as a close to an
adventurous and pleasant life. In this way, risking less, you will
insensibly creep on, making connections, and learning the capabilit