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st paragraph that I have in some way sanctioned the circulation of an expression of opinion, on the part of the p

written to the agents, Messrs. Ward and Lock-who cannot, I feel sure, be primarily responsible for its appearance-to ask them to withdraw it at

s the lack of literary style; but I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a p

he regards the expression 'complete' as applied to a story, as a specimen of the 'adjectival exuberance of the puffer.' Here, it seems to me, he sadly exaggerates. What my story is is an interesting problem. What m

ice in your critic 'somewhat grudgingly.' This is not so. I frankly said that I accepted that a

alice by convicting him of the unpardonable crime of lack of literary instinct. I still feel that. To call my b

in literature and my

is really an extraordinary question for the editor of a newspaper such as

ry despotism than under the despotism of the Church, because the former merel

form of action. It is not. It

rce on me this continued correspondence by d

last word be the present letter, and leave my book, I beg you, to

R WI

REET, S.W.