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    Dec. 15, 1887 The Publishers' Circular t...

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    tifi purpose able comp whatever lainants . * In would that be case the the public only , who j . ua

    again often buy in different the same ; settings illustration . Indeed over , and a large over proportion of the illustrated books of * the day

    could not be sold so cheaply as they are if the woodcuts in them were wholly new . The fact

    that those woodcuts are of ten not new is no discredit to the publisherswho have a right to

    do as they will with their own , —so long as they do not expressly describe old matter as new . '

    Betty Barnes .- —In Longman ' s Magazine Mr . Andrew Lang asks : — ' Can anyone tell

    ¦ me Warburton * * ¦ ^^^^ where ~ ^^ " ~ ™ —r — — ™^™ '»* s to ^^ coot ^^ find ^~ ^^ p ^^ V ^^ B ^^ , ^ H the " that ^^ " whole ^^™ ^^ ^(^^ F ^^ unhappy ^^ P ^^^ V ^ legend ^^ V ^^ " ^^ " ^*^^^ F ^ H ^^ r ^ V . ^ W of Betty ^^^^^^^ h Mr ^^^ ^^ ^^ .

    Barnes , " who burned and otherwise slowly destroyed a large collection of old quarto plays

    and MSS ., many of them unique I There is a list of them in the GenilemavCs

    Maga-; : me ; they include Shakspeare ' s Henry I ., Henry II . ( where fair Rosamond must have

    appeared * - ) , ^ and King * Stephen . Sir Walter ___ * Scott , in the introduction to . The Fortunes of

    the Nigel host , tells of us Bett that . he On haj this i ai hint \ interview aiidnot with forgy

    getful of Bajgford , the shoemaker , who , used to break up books , nor of Omar the Caliph , sings

    the balladiste : — i ' Ballade of Betty Barnes v

    , THE BOOK-BURNEK . * Where is that baleful maid

    T v Who 4 AVI & V JL Shakspeare ** J VA 4 VWU 11 / lWlVJi ' s «^& L quartos A 1 AUI 1 IU shred } Whose slow diurnal raid

    Where The flames is Duke with Hump Step hrey hen sped fed ? ?

    Where is the Henries book ? They all are vanished

    With Betty Barnes the Cook ! ' And now her ghostdismayed

    In woful ways doth , tread , — , (\ Thoug . 0 h once the grieving c ^ —— ^ 3 shade

    Sir Walter visited)—Where culprits sore bestead

    In dank or fiery nook , , Repent their deeds of dread

    With Betty Barnes the Cook . 4 There Bford's evil trade

    Is duly ^ punished ; There fierce the flames have played

    Round Caliph Omar ' s head : The biblioclastic dead

    'Mi Have d rats divers and rainpools e pains to led brook ,

    With Betty Barnes the Cook ! * Envoy .

    4 Caxton ! Be comforted , For those who wronged thee—look !

    tThey With break Betty affliction Barnes 's the bread Cook !

    ' Graham R . Tomson . ' The Swinbubne Incident . —The Publishers '

    extraordinary T ^ eeA : Ji / ha 8 the advertising following re m * feat arks ' relating : — A cur to i this ous

    record instance in of thes journalistic e columns ente . rprise Oh Nov should . 17 have the iN ,

    ew York Ttmes published in full , with the

    exception of the dedication and conclusion ^ py Swinburne cation ing ^ two in Eng of 's new its land pages . tragedy Advance , in advanc of c < sheets Locrine e of with its , " publi occu right

    b of y American , the Worthington publication Co ., of had this been city purc ,, arid hased Mr .

    fpr Worthington # 100 worth offered of advertising to the New the York rig dailies ht of

    newspaper book publication publicat here ion-simultaneously and in London with . The the

    Evenin cured it g . Sun Wheii jumped the Times for » the found bargain that it and pould

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    extra as per set instruction of sheets . , and The cabled telegrap 4 he hic poem feat over was

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    of blank transcri verse pt with ion w broken ere enormous lines , the , and difficulties its

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    as was the feat ( telegraphically , its value j is ournalistical questionable ly . , except We j as udg an e advertisement that the sale ,

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    babl which y the they proportion did not care of buyers to read of it the , and Tim pro es

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    con-AVVX V / VJL * VAAk / *»*»« r \ J ^ . ¦ ¦ «* mrm ^ - ^» r a a v — —— — * -r— — in fcj ^ stealing * . a march on a ^^ publisher ^^^ who had VVJL offered -A VS , 1 . ^ S ^ i * . a -W work ^ -r M , « JBk in Jfc » Jfc ¦ entirel ^ rfjfcj ^ ^ pfc ^ . VT ^'"' Lgood O terms ^^ — faith ¦¦»—— . ^—— within , because — — — the

    it period had n of eglected his offer to , accept was one his of questionable , business moralsalthough a representative of

    in in the this this publishing directio directionn trad , , for for e si aince can nce scarcel the the courtesy courtesv y throw of ot stones the tne

    If this trade the sort lapsed Eng of lish thing there publishers , among has been p knew ublishers onl the y too themselves purpose much for of .

    after which wV » ir » l-i a the i- sal . Vift e sheets nK to an t . ft were wfirA Anxerican to ho Vkft be publisher used napfL , thei t . heir , r was action action not , . creditable to them ; if the correspondent

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    Dec. 15, 1887 The Publishers' Circular T...

    Dec . 15 , 1887 The Publishers' Circular tsqi

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 15, 1887, page 1801, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15121887/page/7/