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      given Authors cessors in is concerned the representatives civic , chair it will ; but have it served was numerousl a the purpose year y s attende ago of g by iving d one , it and a , certain as iar as measure the Societ of ' s prede recog y of - - mtion nifinri . Wii A / Vnen en we w « t turn urn to to the the speeches fmefi ^ h fts of of the thft evening p . venmcr . it it is is satisfactor satisfactorv y to to nnd find - . that that they th ^ v wer -m-a ^

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      object c he desired meant vb to hostility remove k to an p impression ublishers Hlb . ' which There iik was were prevalent p Hh lenty ¦ — of H that publishers ' - ^ the Society Mr . Besant in its was princi If good pal

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      purpose presume , , but an office we have , a paid grave staff , doubts and all as the to machinery the necessity common of establishing to such institution a society s , to , w i ith mu , la we te authors to secure that fair dealing which all publishers of repute are ready to give without

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      book their -writers hesitation still may seem possibl to be backward y be due in to adding a doubt their as names to its to raison the roll d'Stre of the —in institution fact , the , more and eminent b ¦!¦» Bfc # of the VA Lord Mayor IM ' s ts at «& pW the banquet \ in fc question l Jb were editors ¦ % -fc ^ j ournalistsand

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      co In to nsider be any a case fundamental wheth , it er is p it leasant would article to not in find its do , creed well on Mr . to . Besant reconstru ' s authority ct its pJatform , that hostilit and revise y to p its ublishers programme is not .

      Their The Worts Difficulties Received Ex...

      their The worts difficulties received experienced an amusing by illustration authors in securi the other ng their night rights at the in the Princes dramatic . Theatre versions audience , when of

      j i Mr We . learn Hug hwas h from Con iven way a ' writer to s new the d performance who rama was , * Dark present to Days bring that / was it not ithin produced too the much limits before publicity of a the very , law but limited bearing just publi on c the iy , j

      m enoug atter . , Sev g eral complete programmes announcing w the representation were placed outside the for theat admission re a short to tim any e before part the of perform the house ance . took These place ingenious , and a charge devices of will one have guinea secured was mad the iticised

      performance author The few ' s comp spectators forced lete ri upon g who hts , the while were author present they by prev the are ented curious not his li state kel work y of to from the give law being an of copyri prematurel desire g d ht . account y Meanwhile cr of of . the sale of * Called Back * has reached the astounding figure of a quarter of a million copies .

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      * promot Xiiterary ion b men y merit will ' which congrat has ulate fallen Mr . to Mackenzie his lot in Wallace his appointment on the well as Priv -deserved ate Secretary piece to o

      at the among the new ri the ht "Viceroy native hand of population of the India ruler , as the will rap Earl be idly of as Du infinite it fferin is in . valu India In , a and the count his presence ry knowled where of a man culture of the of literary history is spreading of ^ f tn ?

      ¦ ¦¦ Mr Ottoman ¦ . Wallace iBB g races wil i will l lay be his of much book « BiB service on the in Otto dealing man with Empire e , the on comp the lex shelf questions ¦ w fc ge until which he returns may a from J ®*

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      Magazine A Special . The Effort Number I...

      Magazine A special . The effort number is to of pages be made will with be doubled the December , and will number be fully illustrated of the Eng . lish To- the ^ f f * I / ^ ^^' of good tilings' Mr . J . Comyns Carr contributes a paper on ' Thomas Gainsborough ;

      Auetin Dobsoixulc » cribefl * The Squire at Vauxhall , ' in a poem , to which Mr . Hugh ^ w ^ k

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1884, page 1094, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111884/page/2/