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    that » sentences " ~ r — — which — — — which " he ^^ — states " ¦ ¦ I ™ ' ¦¦ was ~ ™ ; b ^*^ ( 3 avowedl ^^ ) b y ^ » ^ pr attributing ta m ^» y r vp and ^ p >^ bi ^ p > ^ p ^ p > by w ^ p" w to name " ^ " ^^^^^^ p me ^ p ^ fc ^ mr

    quoting from others ; ( 4 ) by picking out words apart from the context which explained their bearing ; ( 5 ) by a free use of unworthy personalities .

    The keynote of my paper was a sentence omitted in all reports . It was : —* There are tens of — thousands — — — — — — of — —— honest — — - ^— ¦— - - -w- - ™~ tradesmen ^ p- ^^ ^ i *~ v **^^» »^ —•^ r ^^*^^ m- ^^ - ^ v ^^^ " ^^ in p ^ ^™ . ^» Eng ^ p ^ h ^^ v ^ pk ^ v ^ Pjp ^ h la ^™ ^^ ^ nd ^^ ^™ ^» " ^» . T

    To Such them was what my Mr remarks . Endean have calls no my app ' li calumnia cability . - ' tion of the whole people of this land . ' I was

    called upon to deal with the acknowledged and notorious sins of trade , not to eulogise its virtues ; and —~ w . I stated — _ — __ — _ thus _ — _^ _ _ emp - » - ^—^ - ^*«^ ¦ m . - ha ^^ ^ pi ^^^^^ t ^ H f icall ^ ^^ f ^^*^ P ^ ¦ ¦ ^^ y f , ^ m ^ at ^&^ r ^^ the ^ B ^ J ^ ta ^^ ^^^ ¦ ver »|| ^~ ¦ y

    whole opening , I , was that not agains making t the any trad charge e of Eng . land , as a As to adulteration , is it not a fact that —^ - _ there

    are dishonest traders who adulterate almost every article of commerce which is worth adulterating ? The authorities and proofs of the fact to which I

    referred The sentence more than It justif is an y what of I advertisements said . , age , of egregious frauds' & cis not mine . It was

    q & oted , as I stated at , the , time , from the Spectator of August To insinuate 30 . that I spoke of the trade of

    England as * rotten and dishonest , soul-poisoning , body-destroying , world - demoralising , ' shows a want of ordinary fairness . What I said was that

    all such trade constitutes a national peril and a national sin . Is not trade in evil literature soulpoisoning ? Js not the sale of drink to drunkards

    body-destroying 1 Is not the exporting of foul refuse liquor to the hapless races of Africa worlddemoralising ? It was of such forms of commerce

    that I was thinking in those words . will M be y r seen emar from ks on my publishin manuscri g pt j were _ wit prefa h the c words ed , as

    % f _ , , 'There are many publishers who are the soul of honour dealt are . ' , Those with s with carcel whom y an exc I e have ption personall intimate y

    personal friends with whom I stand on , the most cordial relations . But Mr . Spedding ' s pamphlet proved the existence of unfair customs and

    conventions among some publishers , and it was with reference to these that I " said , in words which Mr . Kndean chooses to omitthat an author of

    very large experience ( whose , name I mentioned ) even ventures to say , * There are knavish publishers and sweating publishers' whose ¦¦

    dealings—C 2 JL , O of which I quoted his description—are of the kind to which I have refeiTed . I only write this letter to remove a

    misunderstanding due to the omission of the words and sentences which put my meaning in its true light . Your obedient servant ,

    F . W . Faeuar . butWe had not intended __ . to _ _ _ notice _ __ the

    language , which Archdeacon ~ Ifarrarhas seen fit to use with regard to the oorumercial morality of this country in general , and of publishers in

    particular , feeling that charges so vague and so manifestly exaggerated ¦ might safely be left to the judgment of the public ; but your

    correspondent to those publishers in the Times who of to have -day had makes transactions an appeal with Archdeacon Farrar to say whether the

    charges which he brings against the ' trade of the publisher ' are or are not well founded . — As ¦ * *~^ we " - - ^^ - are ^ — ' ^ p" well ¦ — - ~~ p- ^ — ' known p— — p ^ *¦» ^^ v w H 4 vpws as ^ the m / ** mm ^ pp 1 publishers W *^ ^**» r *** *¦ *» " ^* p" *¦ ^^ tm f *^ of ^^ ***

    wurks three of we Arc think hdeacon we are Farrar entitled ' s most to ask important ¦¦ to allow , us to make ¦ ¦ ¦ i a brief statement f Pk in P % PbPJ 0 you l V to b plK ¦

    , I Mr . Russel " ^— ™^ **^ l Bndean *~~ ^~ ~^ r- — - — ' - ^ 's * - *^ letter p ^ ^ m ~^ W p ^^ p ^ . v * IV VP"V T r p ^^^ Jph ^ . P * ^ V >^ rep M ^^ H ^^ pm y ^ ^ ~

    First of all , let us repeat the passage from Archdeacon Farrar's speech X to _ which Mr . Russell

    Endean refers . It is in the following words : — * I might expose the dishonourable customs which tainted the trade of the publisherand speak of

    sweating publishers , who without , a blush would toss to the author perhaps a hundredth part of what , by ba — rgCj ains - gr ^ -j o — ssl — - - y ^ inequi _ _ - j tabl — e — , the -- — y had

    obtained . ' We shall now proceed to show how far this language C 7 O is app —J . ± licable to ourselves in our dealings O

    with the gentleman who has made use of it . More . than 20 years ago we projected a work which was to be a ' Popular Life of Christ . ' The whole

    scheme of that work as well as its general character was conceived in this house . The idea having been put into a concrete form we entered into

    negotiations with one or two popular writers for the production of the book ; but these negotiations falling throughour attention was drawn to

    Mr ., now Archdeacon , , Farrar . It is no disparagement to Archdeacon Farrar ' s present position to say that at that time ( 1870 ) he was comparatively

    unknown , and had certainly not gained any great reputation in literature . We laid before him the proposal that he should write - a -- ' Popular — - Life

    j . a . x of Christ ~^^ A B . ' on the A lines ^ A suggested b y ourselves 4 , and offered him for the copyright of this work the sum of £ 500 _ _ with an additional sum of £ 100 as

    a contribution , towards the expense of a visit to the Holy Land in connection with the writing of the work . This otfer he accepted , and he duly

    produced the book which has since attained so wide a fame . We were the first to recognise , not only the exceptional merit of his work , but the

    popularity which it quickly attained , though we venture to point out that such popularity was at least in part to be attributed to the heavy

    expenditure on which we embarked in order to make it known to the reading world . In fact , we doubt if any book of the » ¦ kind has ¦ ever been so

    extensively -H 4 < PPta ^^ f ^ W ^» ^ W I advertised ^ ^^ ~ |~ ^^ ^^ ^^ T ^^ ^^ " — - ^^ as ^—^— —^ — this - ^ —~ ^ " — —^ ^— ^ work - ^^ - " - written —~ " ^^ - — — by the clergyman who now protests against the iniquity ¦ of - ^^ a ^ advertising ' ^ , ^>^^ r " ^^ ^ ^ ^ m p ^«* ^ 9 m ^ WBm * . m ^ Archdeacon "" ^^ ^ ^»^ ^ — ^— ^ ^^ " ^ ~ ^^ ^^ ' —p ™ ^ Farra ^^ - » •— — - r dul ^ - _ - — y , receiv — — — e — d

    in 1873 the sum we had agreed to pay him for writing the ' Life of Christ ; ' but in consideration of ^^^ p- ^ Qq the ^^ f ^ b pi - ^^^ p success ^^ ^^^^^ ^ m - ^ ^ ^^^ p r ^ s n _ t of ^ fc _^ ^ b ^ the ^^ ^™ ^ ^^^ work » ™ - *^ r ^™ *— — we ™ w ^ p- paid p ^ ' . —i- ^ ^»™ ~— ~* him — ^— - ^— ^ - ~— ¦ - — in - 18 - ¦ 74 ^ --

    an additional sum of £ 200 , in 1875 a further sum preparation of V * f m ^ ^^ £ ^ W ^^ 350 * - ** W A ^ b ^^ , ^* ^ besides ^^^ P » ^ of ^ , f *» ^ an f ** ^ an index ^ ^ ^ ^ - *— h ^^ onor ^ ^ k ^^ ; y in ^ a rium m 1876 ^^ m - * . ^ ^ — of ^ , -m ~ £ - —— £ 200 100 ** ' « pr , v in for —¦ 1877 — t h e , h

    the £ 260 work , in 1878 for , which £ 205 , and we in bad 1881 covenanted , £ 100 . Thus to for pay onl £ 600 and which was absolutely our own

    determine property making . ^ m-j m f ^ y ^ fc ^ K ^ Mk m ** £ , ^ 2 we whether , , mK # 4 voluntaril v in ft # ¦ pfc all such p ^> ^ . >*^ # a y W « ^ action . paid ' ^ b e ^^« ^ leave ^ v p ^ in ^ is ^^ ¦ " addition ^ your to " ^ " % ^ be * ^ " ' ¦^ readers ~^ £ ¦—\ 1 rd , 405 ed to , ^ , ^^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^^ ' ^^* rega

    as dishonourable , or whether those who take it are open to the taunt of being * sweating publishers . '

    our T dealings his , however with , does Archdeacon not exhaust Farrar the . After story he of had written the * Life of Christ , ' he agreed to

    write for us a similar ' Life of ISt . Paul . ' By this time value W K' ^ v A ^ ^ ' ^ p both of ^^ r ^ " * his ^* J . * ¦ PS he ' work w w ^^ and p" ~ . " ^^ . ^ oursel For " — ^ - ' ^^ the — — ves — ^^ writing knew ^^ — — ^^^ % the of pecuniary St — . Paul '

    Subseque we agreed ntly to Mr pay . him Farrar the informed sum of £ 1 us , 000 that down , in . f ± J | of the great success of the * Life of

    consequence ^^^^ ^ W f ^^ F ^ % ^ JM ^ ^* ^ fc' wP ^ P * ^ ^ ^^^ ^ fc ^ r ^ m ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^ T ^ B ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ Christ , ' he had received an offer of £ 2 , 000 and a si royalty milar book from . a Althoug nother h under rm of no publisher compulsion s for to a

    d 4 Li o so fe , we of St at . once Paul raised 'to the our amount own payment thus offered for the to ! him {^ t £ Q fBj ^ 4 ^ V ¦¦ by ¦ *^ ' ^ another PP ^ V ^ P | ^* r ^** P ~ ~** ^ . P ^ P 1 ^ house ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ — - "i ^^ r . ^ The w ¦ ^^ *^ v ^ result — ~~ . —^ . . . is that he has

    received of £ 2 , 333 up . 17 to * . the \ d . present t a sum date of ; £ including 4 , 333 . 17 * a . royalty Id . for

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    Oct . is , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 1353 : 111 1 11 1 ., , . .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1890, page 1353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101890/page/15/