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trained — this, I repeat, is what American civilization in my belief most requires, as it is what our civilization, too, at present most requires.
The special present defects of both American civilization and ours are the kind of defects for which this is a natural remedy.
I commend it to the attention of my friendly Boston critic in America; and some months hence, perhaps, when Mr. Barnum begins to require less space for his chronicles of Jumbo, my critic will tell me what he thinks of it.
Boston. De Wolfe, Fiske &c Co. 361 and 365 Washington Street. 1888.
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