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    ZOLA'S NOVELS.

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    , AN IMPOSTOR. To the Editor of the Publ...

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    ¦y. THE LONDON LITERARY SOCIETY.

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    Nov . 15 , i 8 S 8 v , The PublisHers' Circular 1437

    Zola's Novels.

    ZOLA'S NOVELS .

    To the Editor of tJie Publishers' Circular . Sir ¦ —We wish to point out to you ¦¦ that

    your * ^^^ * ~ abbreviated ™ , * B , V *¦ **^ V BT ^>^ PI f ^ r ^^ v report B ^ P ^ ^ B ^ ^^^^ ^ T ^^ ^ of ^^^ " ^ ^^ B ^ i ^ the B * ^ k ^^ ^^^ recent ^ . V ^^* ^ B * ^^ BJ proceed ^ N . ^ ' ^ k ^^^ B ^ p ^^ H ^ B ^* B - ^ ^ BV ings relating t 6 the publication of iranslations

    impression of the works respecting of M . the Zola translations conveys a wrong of M .

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    writer ' s notes that instead of the Solicii ^ rwith General it l say an ing undertaking that the course that Mr taken . Vizetell carried y

    Zola's Novels.

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    course which had be , en taken carried with it c an undertaking by Mr . Vizetelly that lie

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    t .. / iat are indicted before your lordship to-day . ' The ¦ ¦ Bl undertaking ¦ therefore i ¦ did not apply to ¦

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    that formed the subject of the indictment . For the present we have withdrawn the books

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    , Yours obediently , VlZETELXY « fe CO .

    16 Henrietta Street , Covent Garden , W . C .,

    November 12 , 1888 .

    , An Impostor. To The Editor Of The Publ...

    , AN IMPOSTOR . To the Editor of the Publishers' Circular .

    Sir , —I beg leave througli your columns to call the attention of the publicand literary

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    a well-known publisher in this town , who fully believed i i ¦ ¦ him to be the author—of- " * The

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    Thomas Thatcher . 44 College Green , Bristol ,

    JSovember 14 , 18 $ 8 .

    ¦Y. The London Literary Society.

    ¦ y . THE LONDON LITERARY SOCIETY .

    To the Editor of the PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR . Sir—\ n your report of the bankruptcy of

    Mr . John , Playster-Steeds , in your last issue , my naine is mentioned as one whom he

    referred authors to fop advice . Allow me to flatly contradict that statement . The firm of

    Di BlBnt . ^ gb ^^ y & . tfk ^ Long ^ a ^ B * never x has Bk had Bh BBft any business BH ^ communications or otherwise with that of

    John Playster-Bteeds alias the London Literary Society . '

    I am , Sir , your obedient servant , John B . P . Long .

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    JXdtieinber 9 , 1888 .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1888, page 1437, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111888/page/11/