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    Feb. i, 1890 The Publishers' Circular ^

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    ——•«?•——¦—MR. H. M. STANLEY. The utmost ...

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    prove a drug in the market is a result which staggers him , and in the shock of

    disillusionment he is only too apt to lay the blame at the door of his publishers , men who , for reasons of

    their own , are truly concerned in his success . He flatters himself that if the book had been

    cheaper or dearer , better printed or more attractively bound , its fate would have been

    quite different . Sometimes he flies off on a different tack , and is confident—with a

    confidence which makes the experienced smile —that , if the book had only been more

    widely advertised , edition after edition would have been eagerly snapped up , since all that

    was needed to ensure success in such a case was to draw public attention to the work .

    We readily admit that the rank and file of modern authors have certainly not discovered

    a silver mine , though the rewards of literature to mere scribblers to-day are often vastly in

    excess of their merits . Even their condition is seldom so bad , moreover , as that which once

    prevailed amongst their betters—at the period when Oliver Goldsmith pawned his flute , for

    example , and Dr . Johnson and Richard Savage wandered disconsolate and homeless all night

    through the dreary and deserted streets of London .

    In these days , when a love of literature or the affectation of such a sentiment everywhere V

    abounds , the successful author has the publishing world at his feet , and can , within

    reasonable limits , make his own terms . 'Make yourself a name , and I will publish

    anything you write , ' was the answer of a Paris publisher to Dumas , and that is

    practically what they all say . Authors naturally take their goods to the best market , and when

    they have gained audience with the public they are tolerably able , as a rule , to look

    after their own interests . The books which sell largely , it must be remembered , form only

    a way small into proportion print , and the of those publisher which ' s * find pickings their '

    often exist only in the author ' s imagination ; there isin short , a great deal of common

    , sense in the recent remark of a witty American man of letters : * An author ' s pay is very much

    like the price of milk ; it depends somewhat on the marketand a good deal on—the milk . '

    , Unfortunately , in spite of its truth , this is just the kind of opinion which beginners in

    literature are apt to despise .

    Feb. I, 1890 The Publishers' Circular ^

    Feb . i , 1890 The Publishers' Circular ^

    ——•«?•——¦—Mr. H. M. Stanley. The Utmost ...

    ——•«?•——¦—MR . H . M . STANLEY . The utmost continues to be

    manifested in ev eagerness ery part of Europe and America for definite and explicit information

    respecting Mr . Stanley ' s forthcoming work on the Relief of Emin Pasha . The great travel-

    ——•«?•——¦—Mr. H. M. Stanley. The Utmost ...

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    high interest as the main , theme . If may curtailed yet of the feel Lower assured Congo that experiences it will extend , I cannot to two as

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    -Mr . Stanley .

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    undertaken to write a life of Whittier for a new biographical series which Messrs . Funk So Wagnalls have in preparation # .

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 1, 1890, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01021890/page/5/