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    CONGRATULATORY DINNER TO MR, WILLIAM FAU...

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    P rang ' s American Cards . —Early as it is , Mr . Ackermann has favoured us with a sight

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    The ' Library Chrontolk . '—A correspondent writes as follows : — ' The last number

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    August i , i 88 > The Publishers' Circular $ o i " * »¦ * r - i \ i i i i i i - m .

    Congratulatory Dinner To Mr, William Fau...

    CONGRATULATORY DINNER TO MR , WILLIAM FAUX .

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    congratulatory address to Mr . Faux on his re-. storation to health after a long and very severe

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    f J ^ ^ " ^^ — ^ — — ^^ ^^ BBBP - ^^ ^ B" W ^^ ^ BBV Bf ^^ B ^ V names of the gentlemen who were present ; and the list is sufficiently representative to

    held show b y the high authors esteem , booksellers in which Mr , a , nd Faux pub is

    lishers iisners of or London Juonaon wno who nave have tne the pleasure nleasurn oi of his acquaintance . The enjoyment B of the evening ¦ BIBB was ¦¦

    en-— — » . ___ . __ , , _ , _ . . _ . . ^ W > < ' « ' V —« hanced by some very good speeches , Mr . F . Chapman — - ^ , the chairman ~ ' ' ^~ ¦ ' , ^ M gracefull ^ BBK ^^ " BP ^ ' ^ B- " ^ B- ^^ W . B ^ y W presented B |^ T a > B > »¦» VB | bP Vj ^ ^ M ^ V ¦ » ^^ W

    the address , handsomely illuminated and framed , to Mr . Faux — ~ , J whose ^^ ^^ risin ^^^ ¦ g ^^^* was " w ^ B' ^^^^ B' the Bf BBiBB ^^ 0 T sig BV ^ fehB ^ n k 4 al WHI

    for an outburst of applause . Mr . Faux sajd he could not conceive a greater pleasure than to -come to a gathering like that to receive Br ¦¦ ¦ I such

    M B . " B ^^ BL — ' —™ — - ^ — ^^ ^^ ^ B ^ " ^^^ B » ^ > " ~ BJB ^^^ M B |^ - ^^^^ kind sympathy and congratulations as he had received there that nig Bj ht . He — ' must —— BBr ¦ ¦ be -BBr a poor Bh 1

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    fore he took no merit on himselfbut , Nature always gave to him the happiness , of doing

    unto others as he wished that others should do unto him . He had always sought i to love his

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    in some cases his , neighbour had not been like himselfand therefore ¦ he had B failed B .

    ^ . ^ ^^ ^ Laug v ^ ^ ^ v ^ ^ — ^ - ^^ hter Bf e _ T" . ^^ ^^ ) ^^ , T | That ¦ MHBIBI ^^ ^^ k mi ^^ ^^ ^ ^^^ g ^^^ ht *^ ^^ ^ _ ^ ' " b ^» ^^ e ^^ ^ t ^ th ^» ^^^ e ^ ^ BbT 'fault " ^^ VV ^ bb > of ^^ V > yVF him A % «• ^^ ^ py ^ V - self or of his neighbourbut - ^ he thought that

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    sellers , if they had been good men , he had made good bargains with them —¦ - ¦ and if they

    had been — ^ - ^ bad men g J and had - brought - , ^ B 1 ^ B" - ^* 1 ^^^^ m him ^^^ m ^^ m ¦¦ ^^^ stale ^ pr ^^^^ W fish he had simply said * Takethem away . '

    ( Laughter . ) When he was , lying , on a bed-of sickness — he said ^ to himself — — — as ^^^ ^^ W ^^ men ^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ did ^ p ^^^^ P ^^ ^^ " ^^» ¦¦ say ^ - ^^^ ^^ F ^»

    when they were prostrate , * Life is not worth living . ' But when he recovered and noted the sympathetic and genuine feelings

    that prompted them all to exclaim without hypocrisy' FauxI am glad to —— see BP you back ^ -

    agai ^ . B ^ " n ' — ^^ th i , l en he *¦ , felt /• 1 » ¦ that "I a after ¦ A - all - -BB <« -I _ W life -i * P- a — B > P-BP- was -B-W -BB- BBBPP > worth « B - ^ T BK W 1 B | living —•—» W / "" * . ¦ And "" " •• ^ - " ~» this »/*> BBB ^ . he AbI ~ b # ^ declared V « ^ f ^ B > MTA ~ B »» X ^ fe not Jb bTb ~^ Wr f

    egotistically , but because they had received him so kindly . From the bottom of his heart

    he thanked them for his reception . If in after years his energies should be cramped by age , it would cheer hinx _ tcr look upon that

    token of regard and to think when his life was drawing to a close that at least he had lived to earn ¦ a ¦ mark of esteem ¦ from ¦¦— his >^ B- fellow BPBp men .

    - ^^ —^ —^ " - —— -- " — — — — " " — — - ^ " - —~ - —^ - ^^ — ^^^« ^^^^ ^^ ¦ ^ qpT- ^^ BBB . " ^ kP * B <^ Bi B ^«^ B - ^ J ^ P B ^ «^ j B ^ ( Loud ^ BBB an applause * Bl . ) Mr BBB MVB . Edmund ^^ HBB . d ^ ^_ Routled ^_^_^ ge , in _ proposing " ¦— ~ - — ~ Bl — —^ — B ^^^ B the — toast — of ' Art ^^ , ^ Literature ^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^ ' ^¦•¦ IW ^^ P' , ^ J ^ and P ^^ P' ^ BP ^^ B ^^^ IPJ

    the Drama , ' humorously protested , with a modicum of truth in a measure ¦ ¦ of chaffthat

    authors ^—~ - — —— — — — — took — — ninet — y- five - — —m- ^^— per —— - — w - cent ^^ ~~ rw ^^^ ^ p- , ^^ r" of ^ B ^ p all BP V ^ P P . BT ^^ P ^ B 1 profits Papm , PH ^ p B ^ ^^ p ^ Pjp ^ Bf VbV , and —¦ - ™ - ¦ that _ -- — -- — poor _ — publishers BJ ..- „ ^_ , had , —_ . ^^^ to ^ p , ^^ pp , exist ^^ HBV ^ IP « BPB r"P ^ B" on ^^ P » " mm ^ PB the ^ P ^ BB B ^ ^ pV

    remaining five per cent . Mr . Oomyns Oarr responded , in the triple capacity of artist ,

    author author , , and and dramatist dramatist , , in in a a brillian brilliant t and and amusing speech ; and Mr . Alderman Cotton said t he had discovered in him * the BPPBBBBB PB coming VB- BBBBfB | BBBB

    — — " ' " — "" - — * - — — - - — " - - — - ~^ w - ^ — —— *— I I I I I IP * ^ - ^* ^ pTr .. ^ star' ! Mr . G . Haven Putnam , the wellknown American publisher , favoured the

    company with his views on the prospects -o *

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1887, page 807, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081887/page/5/