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    1 MONKEAVEN.'

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    Rev & Adlard . T . Williams ' s rooms in ) 1 a 827 very ( Stewart splendid , Wheatley MS . of ,

    ' the ' Biblia Latina' of the ninth century . It belonged — — to Rochester Cathedral in the

    time . a . v — of Bishop Gundulph , who was consecrated in 1077 . At the period it was

    considered of extraordinary value and rarity , as qq may mav be be interred inferred irom from the the tact fact that that a a

    communication o notice ^ Tnmiinication is written any anv in who who it threatening should should carry carrv with it on off ex ..

    -When Sir T . Phillips bought it , it was in 2 vols . and bound in blue if morocco it and fetched

    ^ 189 . We do not know has been , decided to sell this precious MS . but if so we shall

    confidently expect to see it , realise a sum five

    or six times more than that quoted .

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    August a , 1886 The ^^ m ^^^^^^ ^ Publishers ^^^^^^^ ^^ m ^^ ^^ . ' Circular . 829

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    ponticncc-BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES . 2 b the Editor of the Publishers' Circuilaii .

    Dear Sir , —The Catalogue entitled ' Daintie Diet for Boke-Wormes , ' to which allusion was made

    in your This last confession , is my offspring completes . the excellent advertisement ^^ ^ h ^ ^^ r ^ m <^ m ^^ ^^ ^^¦ ^^ w ^ which ^ ^ ^^^^^ ¦ ' ^^ ¦ your r ^ — correspondent ^^ — — h— — — — — 'L . — Y - — - ~ , w T . '

    furnished in his recent communication . ing hybrid I can philology which forgive it , for ( in his the part sp ) sake lenetic occasioned of the attack . very upon intere my

    st-M essay y aim . in perpetrating this piece of philological high treason was to create curiosity and provoke

    perusa Your l . correspondent ' s critique triumphantly justifies It my is well endeavour for human and n attests ature that my success the comp . lacency

    begotten other quarters of my should bantling be ' tempered s encourag by ing th reception e strictures in

    that of my for friendl one y or censor two . incongruities Justice requires the me printers to add

    sible ( deviating . But from in its , my vary ing copy and ' ) must eccentric be orthograp held respon hy - ,

    apprehend as much as 9 its in closest its whimsical resemblance phraseology to the , printed lies , I i of the seventeenth century .

    page Permit this appeal from the pillory ( in which you helped to place me ) , and believe me to remain ,

    dear Mr . Editor Yours , faithfull y , Charles King

    Vf Jl m \ Iii I I FlfT aJL ^ AX ^ \ Jf , y Purveyor of Daintie Diet for Boke-Wormes / Olde Boke Shoppe , ' Torquay :

    July 27 .

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    1 MONKEAVEN . '

    To the IL & itor of the Publishers' Circuiar . Dear Sir—In otherwise kindly review of

    my book , ' Monkraven , your : The Story of His Betrayal , * I find these words : ' We must protest against the

    to attempt the ' story which by has introducing been mad at e to least give one a false well interest -known

    man man ture wer under nnrl e true a thinly thinlv it would veiled veiled be cognomen cognomen bad . h It If but the the when pic rric--the ortraitas , in this caseis hopelessl enoug y ; distorted

    the practice , deserves only the , severest censure . ' , Agreeing so thoroughly , as I do , with this sentimftnt . of xrniir rflvift-urer . I feel bound , in self-defence .

    to state that the accusation brought against me is .

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    actuall utterly y without exist in foundation the book . alluded If such to a — parallel and I does can

    your have reviewer no doubt has that noticed such , in it and fact remarked , is the case , si it nce

    it is a purely accidental one , and I can onl upon y affirm that — — - — it — was perfectl vv - — - - ^» — - ^ ^^ ^ p ^ y y unintentional ¦ ¦ — ^ ^^ ^^ " ^ V ^ ^^ ^ fc ^ p ^^^^ l ^ on " ^^ a * V my ^ h * A ^» W part B ^ T ^^»«^» , inso ^» ^^™ " ^^ ^^

    -much that even now I am at a loss to understand to which of a novelist character —¦ I your take criti it iw que to present refers . to It his is the readers hi duty - »^»

    types — - — — of human - — — , j ^^ - ~ nature » - m ^^ »— , not , w ^^ «^ to ^ h satirise ^^ w ^ r " ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ~^^ r or ¦ VM ^» burlesque v * v ^^ ^^ - ^ v ^^ r IV actual them into living contempt beings or in ridicule such . a way The one as to is bri art— ng

    mate the other exercise is mere of a lampoonery peculiarl ; organised the one is brain the — leg the

    itiother a proceeding unprinci y pled and censurable to the the las last t de deerrefl gree ; arid and it it is is the tJi « consciousness /» f > nap . innstjp !«« of n-f this t . Tiis

    up marked my pen distinction in vindication which prompts of the mo charge now brought to take

    against me . to — — in ™— Trusting ^""— " your ^ m — ¦ — criti — ¦ ¦ sincerel ¦ ¦¦ — — ^— que i - ^ will y w w ^^^ that ^^ mm be r ^ - ^^ the as — ™ ^ mr ignorant ^^ in h ^» ^ bv dividual ^ w ^^ w ^ ^*^^ m ~~ ^» regarding h ^ ^ r refe w ^^ ^ H ^ v ^ ^* rred ^ " ^ p »^ B ^^^^^ fc

    the the present existence writer of this in unfortunat its production e portraitur ignoran e t as as was to the likeness which he -was accidentally giving to

    for one thus of his trespassing imaginary on your characters space , , and apologising I renaain iremain r dear utSir

    x ,, ; a . x oxx ,, * " Yours truly , ARAMIS AT ? ATVrT «*

    . 75 Gt . Queen Street , London , W . C .:

    July 15 , 1886 .

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    Anne Bowman . —Many readers will hear with regret the announcement of the death

    of stories Miss which Anne Bowman wereand , the still writer are of widel many y

    popular . Among the , best known , of her books are 'The Rector ' s Daughter ^ - ' * Sunshine

    g » j - — ~ - and ' Esperanza Clouds / / ' The 'Laura Castaways Temple / , ' * The * Clarissa Young ' /

    Exiles / ' Amongst the Tartar Tents / The Kangaroo Hunters / & c . The talented lady

    died T . C . at EL the Croft residence , Richmond of her , Yorkshire nephew , the , on Rev the .

    23 rd of July , in the 91 st year of her age . W . P . Bennett . —We are sorry to have to ?

    record bookseller the who decease latel of removed Mr . W . P his . Bennett business , , y

    from Birmingham to Great Russell Street , W . C .

    David Stevenson . —This well-known civil engineer died at North Berwick on the 17 th

    July Robert . He Stevenson was born the in cel 1815 ebrated , a son ineer of Mr of . , eng

    the Bell Rock and other lighthouses . The deceased wrote a number of booksbesides

    contribution a ^ n M s to _ periodical & HM A BA and reference ^ k , lite Bb A a - rature . His more important A works included

    'A Sketch of Civil Engineering in North America / * The Application of Modern

    Hydrometry to the Practice of Civil Engineering / * Reclamation and Production of Agricultural ^ J

    Land / and * Principles and Practice of Canal and of the River ' Encyclopedia Engineering Britannica / In the he new wrote edition the .

    articles ' Diving under / and the * Dred heads ging * . Canal / * Cofferdam / II ¦ ii ' ¦ - v- ' fiQy .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 2, 1886, page 829, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02081886/page/11/