Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
{369} Butler made this note in 1899 before the publication of
_Shakespeare’s Sonnets Reconsidered_, which was published in the same
year. _The Odyssey Rendered info English Prose_ appeared in 1900 and
_Erewhon Revisited_, the last book published in his lifetime, in 1901.
He made no analysis of the sales of these three books, nor of the sales
of _A First Year in Canterbury Settlement_ published in 1863, nor of his
pamphlet _The Evidence for the Resurrection_, published in 1865. _The
Way of all Flesh_ and _Essays on Life_, _Art_, _and Science_ were not
published till after his death. I do not know what he means by _A Book
of Essays_, unless it may be that he incurred an outlay of £3 11s. 9d. in
connection with a projected republication of his articles in the
_Universal Review_ or of some of his Italian articles about the
_Odyssey_.
{376} Butler had two separate grounds of complaint against Charles
Darwin, one scientific, the other personal. With regard to the personal
quarrel some facts came to light after Butler’s death and the subject is
dealt with in a pamphlet entitled Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A
Step towards Reconciliation, by Henry Festing Jones (A. C. Fifield,
1911).
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