(_To M. Mohl._) _Feb._ 16 [1868].... I see Mad. Blanchecotte is publishing her _Impressions de Femme_--what is that? Do men publish their _Impressions d'Homme_? I think it is a pity that women should always look upon themselves (and men look upon them) as a great curiosity--a peculiar strange race, like the Aztecs; or rather like Dr. Howe's Idiots, whom, after the "unremitting exertions of two years," he "actually taught to eat with a spoon." (_To M. Mohl._) SOUTH ST., _Nov._ 24 [1872].... Insensible, cruel, aggravating man! you break off just where I want to hear. The only thing that amuses me is Papal Infallibility. The only thing that interests me not painfully (out of my Chaos)--always excepting Livingstone, East African Slave-trade, Central African exploration--is Prussian Politics. Not that I suppose you to be very well satisfied with them, but I want to _know_ about the doings--Bismarck, Old Catholics, Infallibilists--this extraordinary conflict between the old man at Rome and the Junker-Devil-statesman, Bismarck; also about the struggle with the Upper House and the de-feudalizing Bill. I am athirst to know _your_ mind about these things.... Have you seen Stanley's _How I found Livingstone_? I have desired the publisher to send you a copy. It is, without exception, the very worst book on the very best subject I ever saw in all my life.... Still I can't help devouring the book to the end, though it tells little more of Livingstone than what Livingstone in the despatches has told himself already. But then Stanley and his newspaper have discovered and relieved Livingstone, when all our Government, all our Societies, all our Subscriptions, all the Queen's men could not set Livingstone up again!... Quetelet has sent me his last books--_Anthropométrie_ and _Physique Sociale_--with a charming letter. I answered by a violent and vehement exhortation to him to prepare his second edition at once--the first (1869) of the _Physique Sociale_ being entirely exhausted.[192] Did I tell you that when Mr. Jowett was elected chairman for the subjects of Final Examination at Oxford, I insisted on Social Physics being one? [192] The actually first edition had been issued in 1835, when the title of the book was _Sur l'Homme et le Développement de ses Facultés, ou Essai de Physique Sociale_. In 1869 it was much enlarged, and Miss Nightingale treats it as a new book.