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    The unsatisfactory character of the edit...

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    to the The Chancellor late Mr. John and ...

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    The Annual Meeting Of The Faculty Of Adv...

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    publisher U ^ A « - » ^^ ™ , and , made him the subject of some ^ brief ^^ ~^ , poems . Junius immortalised _ _ Woodfall . This is the only instance of a writer enriching his publisher without sharing the benefit in

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    profits pape , with his anonymous contributor , but , the latter generously declined the offer , and advised ^¦ ^ y ^^^^^ ^ ^^ v *^ ^^» ^^^ ^^ the ^^ publisher ^» to make all he — could ^^ — — — — — out ™ ^ ^^ ^ of ^^ ~^ m them ~~ ^ ¦ ^^» ™ , ^ y adding ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^— ^ - ^ — f ^^^ B , J ^ in ^^ ^^ a ^^ ¦ very ^^ sensible — ^ ¦ — ^ — m — anner — , ^ H

    tliat " without a competency a man could not be happy , or hardly honest . " Walter Scott has iven enduring distinction to his publishersthe Ballantyneswho will be remembered

    as long g as Scott , and so will Constable—the latter , having been the , chief publisher of Edinburg ^ " ^ h for _ many . year ^ - s , until ^ M m— he failed ~ m * _ mm ^^ V ^ . in the general ^*^^ mmi m . mm * crash . It is a re markable ^ mm . mm \ feature m \ ^ ^ M Ain

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    Scotch Reviewers / whose ^ readers may thus be prejudiced ^* ^ . Cottle ^ had ^ ^ a tenderness . in dealing ¦ with authorshaving f » ¦ published ¦ for Southey H ¦ Wordsworth ~ | ~ ¦ V mmr Hannah ¦ More and

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    jan . 15 , 1881 The Publishers' Circular 5 - ^ - ^— ¦ ¦ — ¦ ' - ¦ - — - - - ¦

    The Unsatisfactory Character Of The Edit...

    The unsatisfactory character of the editions of Wordsworth ' s works has been matter of constant mmm- v ¦• w — -m ^ m- comp ^^ ^ ^ K 4 m m ^ r laint mm m ^ mmr * ^ 4 m ^ among W V ^^^« ^ m ^ ^ ^^ . the ^ ^^ m * ^^ poet >^^ V *^ ^ mm * «^ '^ s * fci admirers ^ ^^ m ^ A ^ b ^ h ^ k ^^^ 1 ^^ V . ¦ There ^^^ **^» ^^ ^ ^^ are ¦ ' ^ ^^ three ^ mT * B ^» ^ fc ^^ ^^ ^ reasons mm ^^ ^ m ^^^ mM ~ mm- ^ ^ ^ t ^ ^ for m * ^^ ^» this - ¦ v ^^ ' M . V ¦ The — — — ^ firs — — - *^ t * is — - , «

    ing that to nearl the y human all the faculties editions , follow instead his of presenting own highly them artifici in al the arrangement chronological of order his poems , which , accord would - show ¦ the growth k V V mmt and mm-rnw 4 "V ^ development ¦ fcI mmWmmm mmf of his 4 powers ~| VB ^ p . In this ^ pp comp HV « laint Coleridge MPL —¦ - joins . The

    " ™ " ^^ ^^^—^ ~ ' m ^ ^» ^* ^» ~^^^^ " ^^ F W ^^ tf ^ ~ ~ ^^ , ^^ fe * ^^ ^^ ^^ flfe ^^ ^^» V V ^^ Vi ^ I— V V ^^ ^^ P > ^ ^ P ^ .. ^ P *^^* " ^ ^ pV ^^ ^ " . ^^ v ^ v ^ ^ B ^* ' ^^ ^ p- ^ P'P ^—^— ^^ ™ ~^ P * " ^ P" ~ ~^ P ^^_ J ~ — " — — secon in meri d i t to , that those - » mm the of poet the 's ori latest inal edition editions ir of » . his Wordsworth own ¦¦> text ¦ ¦ is was always the given worst - *¦» —— mmmw , although of - »— - critics far and - - - infe ~ never -- rior

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    ori a stranger ginal editions . For of this his reason poems , , the and lat repudiated e Dr . George all dependence Allen made upon a the comp latest lete text collection . The of third the reason T * AO CU ' hit is i r * that rn rt 4- the 4- ! - » /\ poet w ^ -v sv-4 > has l- > « - * m written w *«* C 4--A- ^ - % < w ^ and ^^ v * ^ -1 has i-k * » / - ¦ included « *•* y ^ I w ^ 4 j ^ / . I 1 " in « w > his V % <¦ n work Ttr /\*» lr « *» great ^ v ^«^ v «^ 4- TTrt *> 1 ^ tr V \ 1 ieces £ \ i ** fi a which llf nlOn

    are not poetry , at all , and which onl , y detract from his reputation s . , a As Dr . many Allen p used to say , he true —» the w . «« k -m ^ g £ — ift A . * */ of x ^ M . simulating 9-JM . tlAi V * JLMJ ¦ * mjm . m ¦ . m .-- imag j ± m ¦» .-. ination « . Jl * L >« VA . ^ - ' » ¦ . when »» AA \/ ** . that ** ^ A W «/ grand W ^ * * - * Jfc * ^ < % i faculty ^ fc » - ^ ^* ^**^ J was » - »^^ quite ^ -1 * - » ^ " ^ ^* inactive ^» - » v »^ i » — ^ - -w . « ^ It — is ~ -

    to remove that this from evil a is great now quite poet ' s incapable works , as of unwort remed hy y . of It him would , poems require which a good he had deal deliberatel of audacity y adopted in an edition definitiveAnd then the Wordsworthians are not ite agreed as to vyhat

    should gieatest greatest be o ot f exscinded the them m , but but . , the ih « Sarah hrst first . she she Colerid would would ge , ha have for ve ins removed removed tance , may is is the the bo Laodamia Laodamia ranked qu as . which which fairly others others among regard reirard the

    publication which as among Prof the . of Kni very his , g superb ht finest of St of edition . his Andrews works of Burns . University Mr . with Paterson a , library is to , of edit edition Edinburg . The of poems h the , intends work , will s to of bo follow Wordsworth arranged up the in , order , The The t will bbe \ with all all the the variations which which in in edition edition

    c ^ sanct b hronological lronoiogica views views ioned from trom by L order the poet . . . districts The te text /* prose will works « gi vven ven wil with l appear in part variations only . The text appear aDDear to to will tne the be value value any any illustrated of tne the

    vy y the the . Lak Lake a districts , , and and bv by elucidations elucidations , , whi which ch will will add add greatly crreatlv or £ Society wor > uuuty k . has nas It will just iust be been been in ten organiser organised volumes ! at at octavo Ciraaniere ( jrrasmere . In . to to this promote nrom connection ote the the study studv we may of or the the add poet poet that ' s s a wor worKs Wordsworth ks , , an ana d to to

    Prof furt ei Huakin ght her y-8 , research ix Mr members . Leslie into , Step among tho hen facts w , Mr hom of . his Aubrey we personal observ de , e Vere and the , names literary Mr . H of . life H Mr . . Hutton . Robert The society , M Browning r . S al top ready ford , Mr numbers Bro . John oke , . Edward Dowden , and Mr . James Russell Lowell .

    To The The Chancellor Late Mr. John And ...

    to the The Chancellor late Mr . John and Masters Frederick of Stanford the University , F . R . S of ., has Cambrid by his ge will , for bequeathed the purpose £ 5 of , 000 comp Consols leting id

    a gentleman * publishing , a contem his Etymolog porary of ical Shakespeare Dictionary , b of y Forei Corne gn lius Ph J rases ansen and , to t Words he National ; the portrait Gallery ; of his a inaiVUBCrint . nnnofo ** nA -r »^ .+ « . « * . A 1 n + ; s » i-, x C ^ olroonnarA ' a < TV / Ton ^ r Wivna r \ f "Win (\« ir » r ' tfi Mr .

    wneatley , with £ 100 for the purpose of completing and publishing the same . II

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1881, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011881/page/5/