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What, Therefore, Mr. Macmillan Proposes ...
Mr . S . Hogg . Our representative found Mr . S . Hogg , the
Charing-cross discount bookseller , equally opposed to the abolition of the present system . ¦ * What the publishers should do , ' he remarked ,
' is to combine to keep the discount at threep shilling ence in book the shilling ht no . t The to be selling allowed pric to e of sink
below ninepence oug . The stores are really the worst offenders in respect of " cutting . " They it was
wlio crown bega books n giving at Is . \ 0 \ half d . penny I found and there selling were lot s - of people willing to walk from my shop to
Bedford Street or the Haymarket for the sake of that Mr _^ * f half a . 9 Hogg Jm- Jh penny ^ ' ^ p ^ M ^ k did ^_ ^ . ^ . ^^ h ^^ ^ not ¦ m ^ ^ ^^ think ^ 4 ^ ' ^ ^> ^ p > ** ^ k that - ^ ^^^ -n -b ^ there m ^ i ^ ^ b ^ " 4 ^ -v ^ - would ^ * -- be
any great difficulty in forming and working such a combination of publishers . He was not in ' favour of the riid boycott recommended by one
bookseller , for he g thought much might be done got by mora so accustomed l suasion . The to public the threepence , he thought in , had the
¦ possible shilling , * that to refuse it would to give be it difficul now . t T , if discount not imdoes not , in Mr . Hogg ' s opinion , prevent a
bookseller , who has his eyes about him , from making a living profit out of the business , Mr . John Bumpus .
Mr . John Bumpus , of Oxford Street , alone among the dozen booksellers whom our representative has up to the present time visitedis in
, favour of Mr . Mac mi Han ' s scheme . He does not commit himself to details , but he thinks that nothing but charging the full published price for
books will put the trade in a flourishing condition again . We believe , however , that Mr . Bumpus would stipulate that the publishers themselves
should have no retail trade .
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Politics and journalism were both in a sorry plight in the autumn of- 1797 , when George C ? Canning CJ projected A . U the Anti-Jacobin , f
or Weekly Examiner . He was then a sprightly young fellow of seven-and-twenty , who had recently been appointed Under-Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs in the Pitt Administration . The first number of the famous sixpenny journal appeared on Mondaythe
20 „ th l _ - of November O , 17 «) 7 , and the last on f , the 9 th of July in the following year . ' It may
be thought / wrote Canning in a preliminary announcement , which was full of biting
sarcasm , * a narrow and illiberal distinction , but we avow ourselves to be partial to the country in which we live-notwithstanding the daily
panegyrics which , we read and hear on the superior virtues and endowments of its rival and hostile neighbours . ' He further went on
to say that the promoters of the new journal refused to dissemble the fact that they cherished '
a feeling of reverence for law , that they acknowledged the force of usage , and did not
reg . id either as less safe guides for the ' moral actions of men than that new and liberal system of ethics , whose operation is not to
» otcH Poetry by Charles of the' Edmonds Anti-Jaccbin . IlluHtruted . '—Edited , with with explanatory humorous
, , plat son < Low ' » , !> y , Mareton Jamofi Gillray <& Co . . , London Crown . ) 8 vo . cloth extni . ( Samp-
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bind but to loosen the bands of social order . ' With ¦ characteristic vigour Canning also
as-~ ~ - ^_ ^^ —— — — — — — — — — - — - ^ r ^^ B I m ^^^^ . ^^ f serted on behalf of himself and his colleagues that they were the irreconcilable enemies of
Jacobinism in all its shapes and in all its degreespolitical and moralpublic and
, , private , whether it ' openly threatened' the subversion of states , or gradually sapped the
foundations of domestic happiness . With this ambitious and rather pompous programme the Auti-Jacobin rushed into the political
fray , and , whilst it lasted , it lashed the Whigs unmercifully ^ / , and did its best to hold up Ato
ridicule the vapouring heroics of English sympathisers with the French Revolution . Clever as many of these strictures were , far
and away the best things which appeared in the Anti-Jacobin w ere its political and satirical poemsand thesetogether with
, , scholarly notes , and a few of Gillray ' s inimitable but fierce caricatures , are given in the
examp present 1 Need le y , K volume the nife ' -grinder Friend . Here ' of the Humanity will celebrated be found ' and joke , t he in
sapphics , in which ^ J Cannin , g and Hookham ^ Frere mercilessly poked fun at Southey , and
derided the oratory of Republican enthusiasm and universal philanthropy . Amongst the more brilliant contributors of satirical verse
to the columns of the Anti-Jacobin , besides Canning and Frerewere Gifford and William
Ellis , Hely Addington , and Lord Carlisle ; the Hon . Wm . Lamb , afterwards Viscount
Melbourne and Prime Minister , though then only a lad of nineteenhad also a hand in this
part of the journal , and , Pitt himself , though he ne usually usuallv wrote wrote in in its its columns columns on on finance nnance , is is
believed to have also contributed at least one , poem . ' Wrightthe publisher of the
Anti-Jacobin , lived at , 169 Piccadilly , and his shop was the general morning resort of the friends
of the Ministry , as Debrett ' s was of the oppositionists . About the time when the Anti-Jacobin uacooin
been the was was publisher contemplated contemplated of Burk . , Uwen Owen e ' s , , pamp who who hlets had nacl , ; failed . The editors took his housepaying
the renttaxes & cit to , Wriht reserving , to themselves , , gave the first up floor . Being g ,
thus enabled to pass to their own rooms throug ^ j h ¦ Wrig M ^ J . ht ' s shop ^ ~^ , ~ m where m " ¦ ' ' | ^~ ^ " ^^ ™ - ^^ their ^ r *** ^^ ~ n ~ r ^ t r ^^ frequent ^>^ ^ r ^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ¦** mm ^^
visits did not excite any remarks , they contrived to escape particular observation . * The
book but dux , biographical oiograpnicai contains not facts tacts merel ot of y interest interest explanatory , as as well well notes as as ,
additions and corrections to the , * List of the presumed Authors of the Poetry / Mr .
Edmonds also gives extracts from contemporary literature bearing on the controversies
of the times , and an account of the various editions of the Anti-Jacobinand its
sue-, ct'Hsor . s . Altogether , alike to students of
Histor of interest y , politics and fascination , and societ . y , this book is full
An Evil In The German Book
AN EVIL IN THE GERMAN BOOK
TRADE . for In Library the March Work part ' ( Lei of pzi the g : Otto * Central Harrasso Sheet - ¦ , witz ) we find the following remarks on th © !
present atate of the German book trade : —
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 15, 1890, page 322, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15031890/page/16/
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