olive as I imagine Rebekah and Sarah, and another as fair and rosy as a Dane.  But have you enough of this?  Don’t you care for what Livingstone says or Humboldt?  Don’t you want to know the four proofs in support of unity of origin?  I do, and if I write them I shall remember them; 1.  Bodily Structure. 2.  Language. 3.  Tradition. 4.  Mental Endowment.  Now he is telling about the bodily structure and I do want to listen.—­And I have listened and the minute hand of the clock has been travelling on and my pen has been still.  But don’t you want to know the ten conclusions that have been established—­I know you do.  And if I forget, I’ll nudge Morris and ask him.  Oh, I see (by looking over his shoulder) he has copied them all in one of his exercise books.

“You may skip them if you want to, but I know you want to see if your experience in your extensive travels correspond with the master’s authority.  Now observe and see if the people in Washington—­all have the same number of teeth, and of additional bones in their body.  As that may take some time, and seriously interfere with your ‘business’ and theirs, perhaps you had better not try it.  And, secondly, they all shed their teeth in the same way (that will take time also, so, perhaps, you may better defer it until your wedding trip, when you have nothing else to do); and, thirdly, they all have the upright position, they walk and look upward; and, fourthly, their head is set in every variety in the same way; fifthly, they all have two hands; sixthly, they all have smooth bodies with hair on the head; seventhly, every muscle and every nerve in every variety are the same; eighthly, they all speak and laugh; ninthly, they eat different kind of food, and live in all climates; and, lastly, they are more helpless and grow more slowly than other animals.  Now don’t you like to know that?  And now he has begun to talk about language and I must listen, even if this letter is never finished, because language is one of my hobbies.  The longer the study of language is pursued the more strongly the Bible is confirmed, he is saying.  You ought to see Morris listen.  His face is all soul when he is learning a new thing.  I believe he has the most expressive face in the world.  He has decided to be a sailor missionary.  He says he will take the Gospel to every port in the whole world.  Will takes Bibles and tracts always.  Morris reads every word of The Sailors Magazine and finds delightful things in it.  I have almost caught his enthusiasm.  But if I were a man I would be professor of languages somewhere and teach that every word has a soul, and a history because it has a soul.  Wouldn’t you like to know how many languages there are?  It is wonderful.  Somebody says—­Adelung (I don’t know who he is)—­three thousand and sixty-four distinct languages, Balbi (Mr. Holmes always remembers names) eight hundred languages and five thousand dialects, and Max Mueller says there