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The Stanley Book Dinner.
binding , we had to get bound in a fortnight , in allabout - 40000 volumes . These have given
employ , ment to , over 500 men and 600 women O . About 4 , 500 yards or nearly 2 h miles of binders '
cloth were consumed on these editions . Now , as there have been produced simultaneously in America and on the Continent about ten ^^ h ^^ v ^^ V ^^^ " ^™^^^^ P ^^ ^^ ^^^ " ^ " ^™ ^^ ^ " ^ ^ ^^^ " ^^ — — — ^^ — — ^^^ ^^^ — ™^ ^^ ^^ ^^ —
other editions , I think I should not be far out in stating that it would be quite within the mark to multiply all the figures I have
mentioned by 7 or 8 . Taking the latter estimate , Mr . Stanley may comfort himself with the reflection that during the last four months
his fifty days' labour of brain and pen have given employment to a , n army of probably seven thousand men and at least as many
wei wom ht en of and all g the irls , editions and probably which the will aggregate be issued simultaneousl g y on Saturday will exceed three
hundred tons . I assure you I am not a little proud of the very humble share I have personally had in assisting forward the
manufacture of Mr . Stanley ' s book . On behalf of myself and my partners , I thank you all for honouring us with your company this evening
and I ask you to join us in drinking Mr . , Stanley ' s health . But , before I sit down , I
must ask you kindly to allow me to have just a word of private conversation with Mr . Stanley . —Mr . Stanley , as this is the only
opportunity that I and my partners have had of meeting you all together , I am deputed by them to ask you to do us the honour of accepting
this bowl . I will not attempt to expatiate on its merits as a work of art . In my estimation , there are three distinct reasons for
commending it to you : first , we hope it may serve you as a punch-bowl when you wish to make merry with your friends ; secondit may serve
the purpose of a flower-holder , to , which it is devoted this evening ; thirdly , in a most unlikely event of necessityit is not a very
inconven «/ ient thing to drop , into a black bag and convey round the corner to your uncle ' s for safe keeping . Nowgentlemenwhilst
apologising for de > taining you , / l _ J so long , , I beg you 1 to drink Mr . Stanley ' s health , all up-standing . Mr . Stanley , in responding to the toast of
his health , said : Mr . Chairman and gentlemen , you have heard some statistics from Mr . Marston , the principal publisher of Sampson
Low & Co . Some years ago we met in this hotel before to celebrate another and similar event . And I was happy to see our friend
Mr . Johnston on that occasion K X ( cheers ) . I am you glad all to . see You that all time seem has to deal me just t so as kindl young y with as
ever ever , ( and laug I hter am and nappy cheers to say ) , t I h feel ough as probab well as ly I have been snowed upon Xa little as I was
passing by the mountain of Ruwenzori . Mr . Marston tells you that the great book will be out on Saturday morning . I am very glad to
hear it . I think it ought to have been out a month ago ( great laughter ) . I have been ¦ impatiently m ¦ WB waiting m hl in —¦ order - * ia # ¦• that I might
• . " pvmm ^ ^ ^ m *« ^^ . * ^ p ^» m V w ^ w *^ v *^ v * ^ wm * *¦* r *^ ^^« w ^ r ** 0 * ^ # V m * ^* -w *** * m ** mi ¦¦*¦& *¦*** *^ take leave of you all ( No , no ) and enjoy that holiday that I am hungering for . It
has been a pleasure to me to tl > ink that it has given so much occupation to so I 1 many people . It was only the other evening
that it inspired Mr . Henty to make a brilliant exhortation to the savages of London to
behave themselves better . I am sure it has given a great deal of pleasure to many here . I see — Mr . _ Marston - ___ — , Mr _— . _ Searle ___ — . _ - - , Mr — . Rivington _ ^^ _ __ ,
and young Mr . Marston , who will uphold , I suppose , the fortunes of Sampson Low & Co . for another generation c ? . As I look round I
see a great many faces here beaming with delight as they hear that the great work is about to come out . It is the work of WeUs
& Co . There is Mr . Keltie ; there is , Mr . , approval Jephson : there —he is tapp Go ing itold Mr . fellow Keltie ' with : —he hi has gh
also had something , to , do with it . I see Mr . Moberley Bell , he has had something to do with itand Mr . Bates too . And I see our 7
friend the , Bishop here ; he is also going to have a hand in it before he finishes with it , for
on a solemn occasion he is going to call upon a lady to love , honour and obey me . ( Great laughter . ) / The subject a in reality ---- / of this evening o ' s ,
speech ought to be ' The Book , ' Mr . Marston , because you have told us it has given employment to 7000 menand as many women and
girls . It , has cost us , three years' labour , and an immense pile of money . Mr . Hatton has had a small hand in it . Mr . Wilsontoohas
been very busy with it . I believe he has , copied , it all over with his own right hand . In fact , there is scarcely one here who has not an interest
in it either £ , 3 an orator or as a gentleman about to give his benediction . I could say a good deal more than I have in that book . However , I
have confined myself to the narrative , as we swung our way through Africa , about those lakes and through East Africa , to rest in
Zanzibar , and somehow or other it seems like a dream which has brought us all together to the place from whence we started some five
years ago . I have confined myself to the narrative of the march . I might have spun it ou f t to h ten volumes fc ¦ 1 . ¦ There —^— ¦ ¦ ' s »~^» ¦ man i ¦ y and -m ¦« ¦ »¦ many ~—
»* ^ w - ^ r - ^ r - ^~ - ^ r - ^^ m ^ «« w ^^ ^^ »»^ ™» ^™ ^^ ^™ r ^ r » - ^— w — — ~ q ^ ^— ^— — ™^ ^ r * ^ r ^^ ^™ ^™ ^»» ^ r —^* • m an incident that I might have given , but I wanted to keep A . some p Xlums for that occasion
when I should find myself resting in some cottage , with a wife and children around me , and I shall then recall some happy occasions or
some dismal scenes , and then , probably , I shall feel it worth my while to record it in another fashion altogether . There ' s one thing
espe-\~> ' X cially I have kept back , and that I have touched but little , and that is on the dismalities of the march from the Albert Nyanza to the
East Coast . I shall never be able , T feel sure , to give you a true record of the troubles which beset us day and night from the Albert Nyanza
to the Indian Ocean . I have touched upon it bub very little . They who can read between the lines will be able to see it . But I wish
sometime to pass by so that the bitterness and agony of the march may be forgotten and I can see only the romance of it . I have been scolded
frequently since I have returned from Africa in regard to Emin . I wish some years to roll by before all that we might have said could be
said with as large amount of charity as possible . You will find in reading those chapters applying to Emin that you have a strange character
for the first time brought before you , and it i » probable that there is some rising novelist here , a
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 1, 1890, page 810, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01071890/page/16/
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