...discrimination so enlightened, that this very refusal cheered the author better than a vulgarly expressed acceptance would have done. It was added, that a work...in three volumes would meet with careful attention. The writer of this letter was, as I have said, Mr. W. Smith Williams, and his name appears so frequently...

...dreary anticipation of finding two hard, hopeless lines, intimating that ' Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. were not disposed to publish the MS.,' and, instead,...65, Cornhill. Besides the address to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., there were on it those of other publishers to whom the tale had been sent, not obliterated,...

...disposed to publish the MS.," and, instead, she took out of the envelope a letter of two pages. She read it trembling. It declined, indeed, to publish...in three volumes would meet with careful attention. I was then just completing Jane Eyre, at which I had been working while the one-volume tale was plodding...

...experienced on reading Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co.'s letter containing the rejection of The Professor. ness reasons, but it discussed its merits and demerits...65, Cornhill. Besides the address to Messrs. Smith, Elder •& Co., there were on it those of other publishers to whom the tale had been sent, not obliterated,...

...after the death of the gifted author, and it is much inferior to her other books. Says Mrs. Gaskell, " Mr. Smith has told me a little circumstance connected...with the reception of this manuscript, which seems indicative of no ordinary character. It came in a brown paper parcel to 65, Cornhill. Besides the address...

...for business reasons, but it discussed its merits and demerits so courteously, so considerately, A2 in a spirit so rational, with a discrimination so...in three volumes would meet with careful attention. I was then just completing " Jane Eyre," at which I had been working while the one-volume tale was...

...dreary expectation of finding two hard hopeless lines, intimating that Messrs Smith, Elder & Co. " were not disposed to publish the MS.," and, instead,...in three volumes would meet with careful attention. 1 was just then completing " Jane Eyre," at which I had (been working while the one-volume tale was...

...dreary expectation of finding two hard hopeless lines, intimating that Messrs Smith, Elder & Co. " were not disposed to publish the MS.," and, instead,...in three volumes would meet with careful attention. I was just then completing " Jane Eyre," at which I had been working while the one-volume tale was...

...after the death of the gifted author, and is much inferior to her other books. Says Mrs. Gaskell, " Mr. Smith has told me a little circumstance connected...with the reception of this manuscript, which seems indicative of no ordinary character. It came in a brown paper parcel to 65, Cornhill. Besides the address...

...discrimination so enlightened, that this very refusal cheered the author better than a vulgarly expressed acceptance would have done. It was added that a work...Smith has told me a little circumstance connected i»47 UNINITIATED IN PUBLISHERS' WAYS 335 with the reception of this manuscript, which seems to me...