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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

...ublished in the U.S.A. by MountainView Publishing A division of Treble Heart Books Sierra Vista, AZ http://www.trebleheartbooks.com This is a non-fict... ...tbooks.com This is a non-fiction work. All rights reserved. No part of this book or any other copyrighted materials contained herein, used by permiss... ... learned that it never pays to compare myself to others who are selling more books, winning more awards or getting more attention from the media. They... ... God gave us the power to rise above the critiques, the rejection slips, the editors and agents who have providence over our submissions. We have a po... ...his way before I started writing. I was beginning to resemble the guy in the comic strip who works at home on his computer in his bathrobe, losing all... ...o admit I was a slow learner. I blamed my writing woes on everyone, from the editors I had submitted to (who I swore had no idea what a good novel was... ...for perfectionism. It’s easy to think even good is unattainable when agents, editors, and assorted professionals hand out rejections on a regular basi...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ting of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctrinate but rather to ... ...sure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and b... ...n John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the beginning was the word—‖ This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then ... ...ctive new decisions print shop owners faced was how to reward authors and editors for their time and skills. Printers became ―carriers of a spirit o... ... room. From its center the managing editor supervises local and wire news editors stationed inside and outside the rim. Wearing dress shirts but with... ...ef sentence or two. Copyboys fill paste pots on the desks of reporter and editors and run errands when not hustling reporters’ typewritten pages to ... ... HarperCollins, 2006. Hogben, Lancelot Thomas. From Cave Painting to Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication. New York: Chanticleer ...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgroun...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ondon ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page iii A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 ... ...8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirem... ...8/08 11:04 AM Page vi Acknowledgments ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 The ideas for this book come from the theoretical and practical work I have been doing for t... ...ct was an easy topic to get the public to focus on; we had the reporters and editors calling us, pleading for a quote or an opinion piece. Intellectua... ...would have been contacted by the very talented person who took images from a comic book about fair use that I co-wrote and mashed them up with words f... ...nization of paid experts, each assigned a topic, with hierarchical layers of editors above them, producing a set of encyclopedic tomes that are rigoro... ...ovement has been pronounced enough to generate its own reaction. The popular comics site “xkcd” has strips critical of the Digital Millennium Copyrigh... ...Musical borrowing is the subject of the next “graphic novel”—which is to say comic book—produced by me, Keith Aoki, and Jennifer Jenkins: Theft!: A Hi... ...the movement to recognize and safeguard the public domain can start with the editors’ in- troductions to the Symposium Cultural Environmentalism @ 10,...

...lly unavailable to us, and why today's policies would probably have smothered the World Wide Web at its inception. Appropriately given its theme, the book will be sold commercially but also made available online for free under a Creative Commons license.(1.6MB PDF File) ...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...randache, and L. Popescu American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (... ...MI 48106-1346, USA Tel.: 1-800-521-0600 http://www.umi.com/bod/ (Books on Demand) Copyright 2002 by American Research Press Rehoboth, Box ... ...se increased when I extracted from the bottom of 5 the envelop a small book of poetry, in a Lilliputian format, as if it were for use by fable pe... ...ry of annihilators and perifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd). Although it is an old co... ...radoxism does not remain within the perimeter of its obvious effects ( the comic in itself, anti- calophile struggle, anecdotal fun, indifferent laugh... ...gust 1995, 3rd year, no.34, p.20- 21; and in World Poetry 95, 13th series, editors Kim Joung Woong & Kang Shin-II, U1 Chi Publ. Co., seoul, Corea, 19...

...e of distribution of the specific elements, it is collocated in the category of annihilators and perifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd)....

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ting of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctrinate but rather to ... ...sure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and b... ...n John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the beginning was the word—‖ This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then ... ...ctive new decisions print shop owners faced was how to reward authors and editors for their time and skills. Printers became ―carriers of a spirit... ... room. From its center the managing editor supervises local and wire news editors stationed inside and outside the rim. Wearing dress shirts but with... ... sentence or two. Copyboys fill paste pots on the desks of reporter and editors and run errands when not hustling reporters’ typewritten pages to ... ... HarperCollins, 2006. Hogben, Lancelot Thomas. From Cave Painting to Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication. New York: Chanticleer ...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the background...

...language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia. -- 14. Printers as Agents of Change-After the fall of Rome, Western c...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...ch their task from a variety of perspectives, but rarely a marketing one. In this book Seymour Fine describes how ideas and issues can be more effe... ...planning, antismoking, or better environment. Fine is the first person to write a book on the general principles of social marketing and he is to b... ...he is to be congratulated. The reader will find much stimulating material in this book-a book that shows a high standard of scholarly research and ... ... vehicles for ideas, by selecting some news stories and omitting others, newspaper editors decide which ideas they will market and which they will d... ...er-capita consumption of cigarettes in the world, government sponsored posters and comic books carrying messages illustrating adverse effects of smo... ...used in India's population control program. Nutrition messages were publicized in comic books (Berg 1970, p. 1402) and distributed in India where u...

...transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These are some of the questions dealt with in this book. In this first chapter the nature of an idea is developed, contextualized and shown to be a most timely topic. To pave the way for this book's argument that ideas are exchanged in marketlike transactions, the aim of this...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...dian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in ... ...two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. ... ... this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. Is this book true, or not? Preface ... ...less of who the author was. Regardless if they were the equivalent of a Greek comic book, or a recipe THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civiliz... ...r you for almost ‘xx’ years now. We are professionals. We have professional editors. Who work for professional corporations who are not slanting ... ... So the media and all of its employees such as journalists and reporters and editors: carefully whitewash every story of most of the pertinent fact... ...til the ten- twenty years of government censorship brainwashed the bigwigs and editors enough so they began to censor themselves. After 30 years exp... ...t integrate it with facial expressions-body gestures... Why not make language comical instead of serious? To try to squeeze all self-expression int...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...ived there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that the proprietors have allowed me to repub- lish so... ...ed at making a popular – or shall we say vulgar? – sort of society verses, comical and prosaic, written, you would say, in taverns while a supper part... ...oks with which Whitman had bedecked his pages. The book teems with similar comicalities; and, to a reader who is de- termined to take it from that sid... ...ld get evil from so healthy a book as the Leaves of Grass, which is simply comical wherever it falls short of nobility; but if there be any such, who ... ...s so different; and while the big drums are beaten every day by perspiring editors over the loss of a cock-boat or the rejection of a clause, and noth...

...zine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that the proprietors have allowed me to republish so considerable an amount of copy....

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The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes)

By: Honoré de Balzac

...t Wormeley Dedication To Constance-Victoire. Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the... ...it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged t... ... daring than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used these crumbs in showing t... ...matters of religion.” May the double signification of your names be for my book a prophecy! Deign to find here the respectful grati- tude of him who v... ...his two accomplices. Dutocq was a great knave, and Cerizet had once been a comic actor; they were both experts in humbug. A motionless face like Talle... ...e care of that,” said Barbet. “I am on the best of terms with the managing editors; they say the devil is in me, and that I remind them of Ladvocat in... ...anager, editorial staff, and so forth.” “A name, we have one made to hand; editors, they are you and I and a few young fellows who grow on every bush ... ...vre,” where a heated discussion was going on. The article by which the new editors of every newspaper lay before the public their “profession of faith... ...” “He’ll rate you finely,” said Minard, laughing. “I never saw anything so comical as his wrath last night.” Felix, as he read the letter, smiled to h...

...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my ple...

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The History of Tom Jones

By: Henry Fielding

...istory of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...istory of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Facu... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. BOOK IX CONTAINING TWELVE HOURS Chapter 1 Of those who lawfully may, and... ...promoter of those harmless quarrels which tend rather to the production of comical than tragical incidents. The serjeant asked Partridge whither he ... ...espear himself was, and, perhaps, thou may’st be no wiser than some of his editors. Now, lest this latter should be the case, we think proper, before ... ...st not as grossly misunderstand and misrep resent us, as some of the said editors have misunderstood and misrepresented their author. First, then, ... ... young lady’s delicacy. Accidents of this kind we have never regarded in a comical light; nor will we scruple to say, that he must have a very inadequ... ...scribe his barbarity? To my fondness he was cold and insensible. My little comical ways, which you, my Sophy, and which others, have called so agreeab...

Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII.

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

........................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ................................................. .......................................................................... 58 BOOK 2.II.NANCI .............................................................. .......................................................................... 84 BOOK 2.III. THE TUILERIES .................................................... ...l: with facts and few commentaries; official, safe in the middle:—its able Editors sunk long since, recoverably or irrecoverably, in deep dark- ness. ... ...reat days there should be a Pacte des Ecrivains too, or Federation of Able Editors. (See Newspapers, &c. (in Hist. Parl. vi. 381-406).) Beautiful to s... ...ibly along the streets, a Deputation of Patriots, ‘to expostulate with bad Editors,’ by trustful word of mouth: singular to see and hear. The bad Edit... ...ee long- contending elements of French Society, dashed forth into singular comico-tragical collision; acting and reacting openly to the eye. Constitut... ...or-mania and royal blazonry of Cordwainery. Except indeed that this is not comic; ah no, it is comico-tragic; with bound Couriers, and a Doom hanging ...

... VOLUME II.?THE CONSTITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ......................................

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...IRST CHEAP EDITION OF “AMERICAN NOTES” It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; an... ...ING AWAY I SHALL NEVER FORGET the one fourth serious and three fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morn ing of the third of January ... ...ity as I have now, and could no more help laughing than I can at any other comical incident, happening under circumstances the most favourable to its ... ...out the necks of some, and the broad sheets in the hands of all, they were Editors, who boarded ships in person (as one gentleman in a worsted comfort... ...ss and simplicity; the work she had knit ted, lay beside her; her writing book was on the desk American Notes – Dickens 35 she leaned upon. — From ... ... exercise was that of imitation and memory. She recollected that the label book was placed upon a book, and she repeated the process first from imitat... ...illes and burlesques. It is singularly well con ducted by Mr. Mitchell, a comic actor of great quiet American Notes – Dickens 102 humour and origin...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and ten...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called T ales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slight-... ...as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short storie... ... Kipling had made his astonishing advent with a series of little blue-grey books, whose covers opened like window-shutters to reveal the dusty sun-gla... ... that is now scattered. Then came the generous opportunities of the Yellow Book, and the National Observer died only to give birth to the New Review. ... ...m a book. “‘Smiles’ ‘Elp Yourself,’ it’s called,” said Jane; “but it ain’t comic. It tells you how to get on in the world, and some what William read ... ..., always having her relations and girls from business in, and their chaps. Comic songs a’ Sunday, it was getting to, and driving trade away. And she w... ...y. A rather “touristy” friend of his took him away at times. He complained comically to Miss Winchelsea. “I have only two short weeks in Rome,” he sai...

...over of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...work in his teacher’s way, he over- worked himself in his own by devouring books; and was sent home at fourteen in such a state of health that his gra... ...ing his probation—indeed he is said, and we can easily believe it from his books, to have acquired a very solid knowledge of law, especially in bankru... ...lzac’s cool use in his acknowledged work of the title “Lord Dudley”). This book begins so well that one ex- pects it to go on better; but the inevitab... ...h which he seems always to have regarded it; and in writing to publishers, editors, creditors, and even his own family, it was too obviously his inter... ...never entirely , those miscellaneous writ- ings—reviews (including puffs), comic or general sketches, political diatribes, “physiologies” and the like...

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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

By: Honoré de Balzac

...gouleme. Following this trilogy Lucien’s story is continued in yet another book, Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life. A DISTINGUISHED PROVINCIAL AT PARIS P... ...willingly,” replied the Baron, “but we live with human beings and not with books. There, dear Nais! I see how it is, there is nothing between you yet,... ...he vicissitudes which depress but cannot overwhelm me. “Plautus, the great comic Latin poet, was once a miller’s lad. Machiavelli wrote The Prince at ... ...oliere would have celebrated it if it had been in existence in his day, so comically appropriate is the name. Flicoteaux still subsists; so long as st... ...uture friend was on the staff of a small newspa- per, and wrote reviews of books and dramatic criticism of pieces played at the Ambigu-Comique, the Ga... ...stant,” burst out Michel Chrestien, looking at Lucien’s head, and sniffing comically. “Y ou were seen driving about in a very smart turn- out with a p... ... my opinions will necessarily undergo a transfor- mation when I accept the editorship of a review of which the politics are known to you, my convictio... ...lutely obliged to speak of a man whom you do not like, for proprietors and editors are sometimes under compulsion, you bring out a neutral spe- cial a... ...d to say—to transact business which could not be ar- ranged elsewhere. The editorship had been promised to Hec- tor Merlin. Lucien, Merlin’s intimate,...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...edition of Shelton’s “Don Quixote,” which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some—and I confess myself to be one—for whom Shelton’s racy... ... into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Stratford ... ...dant, but rather that the sententious terseness to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is pecu- liar to Spanish, and can at best be only dis... ... decent and decorous, but it treats “Don Quixote” in the same fashion as a comic book that cannot be made too comic. To attempt to improve the humour ... ... it also aimed at correctness of text, a matter to which nobody except the editors of the Valencia and Brussels editions had given even a passing thou... ... are inadmissible, a good many of them have been adopted by all subsequent editors. The zeal of publishers, editors, and annotators brought about a re... ...ond time, would very likely have tried to im- prove him by making him more comical, clever, amiable, or virtu- ous. But Cervantes was too true an arti... ...these books enables the author to show his powers, epic, lyric, tragic, or comic, and all the moods the sweet and winning arts of poesy and oratory ar...

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The Brotherhood of Consolation

By: Honoré de Balzac

...premacies, became a Liberal, and attempted to reach celebrity by writing a book; but he learned, to his cost, to regard talent as he did nobility. Hav... ... by the fortunes of ambitious capitalists, or by the wit and shrewdness of editors. Meantime he was drawn into all the dissipations that arise from li... ...ver. From time to time Monsieur Alain and Monsieur Joseph consulted a note-book, turning over its leaves. “See the faubourg,” said Madame de la Chante... ...ted. His per- plexity did not last long, for she presently returned with a book in her hand. “Here, my dear child,” she said, “are the prescriptions o... ... end of six months. His hopes, he said, were now fixed on the success of a comic opera called ‘Les Peruviens.’ When he said that I began to tremble. M...

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American Notes

By: Rudyard Kipling

...I had come with a grievance upon me—the grievance of the pirated En- glish books. Then a reporter leaped aboard, and ere I could gasp held me in his t... ...ven-storied warren of humanity with a thousand rooms in it. All the travel books will tell you about hotel arrangements in this country. They should b... ...s, their ancestors. It grieves me now that I cursed them (in the matter of book piracy), because I perceived that my curse is working and that their s... ...to the gentlemen who run the grimy reality. I’m sick of interviewing night editors who lean their chair against the wall, and, in response to my deman... ...ot appear in the invoice. The type- writer is an in-stitution of which the comic papers make much capital, but she is vastly convenient. She and a com... ...n cloth tops! Not till I wandered about this land did I understand why the comic papers belabor the Anglomaniac. Certain young men of the more idiotic...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...RTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle [1831] BOOK I CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C onsidering our present advanced state of cul... ...t have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Log- books can be better kept; and water-transport of all kinds has grown more c... ... and then, by quite foreign sugges- tion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdrockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly of th... ...ave reached a height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeep- ers, must write on their door-lintels No ch... ...cation, “at present the glory of British Lit- erature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it for their own behoof. To the First Chapter... ...there is a good deal of remark throughout the work in a half-serious, half-comic style upon dress, it seems to be in reality a treatise upon the great... ...erican Review, No. 89, October, 1835. 216 Sartor Resartus IV. NEW ENGLAND EDITORS. “The Editors have been induced, by the expressed desire of many pe...

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Diana of the Crossways

By: George Meredith

...of Diana of the Crossways is to be read as fiction. DIANA OF THE CROSSWAYS BOOK 1 CHAPTER I OF DIARIES AND DIARISTS TOUCHING THE HEROINE AMONG THE DIA... ...perceptions and imaginative avenues, her rapid summaries, her sense of the comic, demanded this aerial freedom. We have it from Perry Wilkinson that t... ...its first slough. Idea is there. The funny part of it is our finding it in books of fiction composed for payment. Manifestly this lady did not ‘chamel... ... island of chills and fogs, coelum crebris imbribus ac nebulis foedum, the comic and other percep- tions are dependent on the stirring of the gastric ... ...mps below. They kick it for pastime; they are intelligences perverted. The comic of it, the adventurous, the tragic, they make devilish, to kindle the... ...ed Lon- don. Her friend bore such reminders meekly. They were read- ers of books of all sorts, political, philosophical, economical, romantic; and the... ...ours of veiled loveliness; whispers, of a gen- eral anticipation; and also Editors can jog them. Redworth was rising to be a Railway King of a period ... ...ed the astonished pub- lishers before the book was advertized. Speaking to editors, Redworth complimented them with friendly intimations of the real a... ...of such a book. ‘Mrs. Warwick? Mrs. Warwick?’ said the most influential of editors, Mr. Marcus T onans; ‘what! that singularly handsome woman? . . The...

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