When he was not traveling through the country getting personal publicity and acting antics for his show’s advertisement, Barnum spent his time tranquilly at Bridgeport, editing and re-editing his autobiography, adding appendixes and entertaining distinguished visitors. Matthew Arnold spent a night at “Waldemere,” after delivering his lecture, “Numbers: or the Majority and the Remnant,” at Hartford, Connecticut. He wrote to Mrs. Forster of his visit: “The night before last I dined and slept at Barnum’s. He said my lecture was ‘grand,’ and that he was determined to belong to the remnant.” That was all Matthew Arnold wrote in his published letters about Barnum. It seems that Barnum never impressed his literary friends as worth mentioning, even in their letters. Thackeray’s letters contain no reference to him, although they were good friends, and Mark Twain, who often visited Bridgeport, never wrote any comments on his host. It may be that after Barnum finished talking there was nothing else to be said on the subject. Barnum in his last year also published another book, called _Dollars and Sense, or How to Get On, The Whole Secret in a Nutshell_, By P. T. Barnum, to which is added sketches of the “Lives of Successful Men who ‘Rose from the Ranks’ and from the most Humble Starting Point Achieved Honorable Fame, By Henry M. Hunt, and an appendix containing, Money! Where It Comes From and Where It Goes To, Being a Concise History of Money, Banks and Banking, By Selden R. Hopkins.” The pages of this book are edged all around with gold, and the cover design includes three silver dollars, obverse and reverse, a man’s exposed brain, and a sprig of laurel. The contents were nothing more than a collection of the anecdotes contained in various editions of Barnum’s autobiography, and added to them were the homely sentiments he delivered in his lectures on “The Art of Money-Getting” and “The World and How to Live in It.” It was designed to tell young men “How to Get On,” but its platitudes are neither useful in their selection nor novel in their expression: Barnum spent many years, so far as his written philosophy is concerned, assuring the public that two and two really do make four, if one only persists in working it out.