there, with three or four little rooms in it, and walls as strong as a lighthouse. There have been more foolish dreams, and there have been less competent teachers than the tempests that would have roused me and the calms that would have brought me peace. If any serious thought, if any noble inspiration might have been hoped for, surely it would have been there, where only the clouds and waves were transient, but the ocean before me, and the stars above, and the mountains on either hand, were emblems and evidences of eternity. NOTE.--There is a passage in Scott's novel, "The Pirate," which illustrates what has been said in this letter about the necessity for concealing superior culture in the presence of less intellectual companions, and I quote it the more willingly that Scott was so remarkably free from any morbid aversion to society, and so capable of taking a sincere 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.