This disinterested frankness endeared me to that good man to his last days, and his advice, which I followed, resulted, as he had predicted, to my benefit. My subscription list my kind friend the Hon. C. A. Murray had in a few days commenced, with the subscriptions of HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN, H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER, H. R. H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, H. M. THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, H. R. H. LEOPOLD DUC DE BRABANT, After which soon followed a complimentary list of the nobility and gentry, together with the leading institutions of the kingdom. My work was published by myself, at the Egyptian Hall, and the only fears which my good friend John Murray had expressed for me were all dispersed by the favourable announcements by Mr. Dilke, of the Athenæum, and the editors of other literary journals, from which it will be seen that the subjoined notices are but very brief extracts. It may not be improper also here to remark, that for all the Royal copies subscribed for above, the Hon. C. A. Murray was ordered to remit me double the amount of the price of the work; and that, on a subsequent occasion, when my dear wife and myself were guests at the dinner table of John Murray, he said to his old friend Thomas Moore, who was by our side, "That wild man by the side of you there, Mr. Catlin, who has spent enough of his life amongst the wild Indians (sleeping on the ground and eating raw buffalo meat) to make you and I as grey as badgers, and who has not yet a grey hair in his head, applied to me about a year ago to publish his Notes. I was then--for the first time in my life--too honest for my own interest, as well as that of an author; and I advised him to publish it himself, as the surest way of making something out of it. My wife here will tell you that I have read every word of it through, heavy as it is, and she knows it is the only book that I have read quite through in the last five years. And I tell Mr. Catlin now, in your presence, that I shall regret as long as I live that I did not publish that work for him; for as sincerely as I advised him, I could have promoted his interest by so doing, and would have done so, had I known what was in the work when he proposed it to me." The reader will pardon me for inserting here the critical notices which follow:-- EDINBURGH REVIEW. _Fifteen pages._