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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
·
George Gissing
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The
surprise
was
so
cynically
sprung
upon
a
yet
innocent
public.
At
that
happy
time
(already
it
seems
so
long
ago)
the
literary
news
set
before
ordinary
readers
mostly
had
reference
to
literary
work,
in
a
reputable
sense
of
the
term,
and
not,
as
now,
to
the
processes
of
"literary"
manufacture
and
the
ups
and
downs
of
the
"literary"
market.
Trollope
himself
tells
how
he
surprised
the
editor
of
a
periodical,
who
wanted
a
serial
from
him,
by
asking
how
many
thousand
words
it
should
run
to;
an
anecdote
savouring
indeed
of
good
old
days.
Since
then,
readers
have
grown
accustomed
to
revelations
of
"literary"
method,
and
nothing
in
that
kind
can
shock
them.
There
has
come
into
existence
a
school
of
journalism
which
would
seem
to
have
deliberately
set
itself
the
task
of
degrading
authorship
and
everything
connected
with
it;
and
these
pernicious
scribblers
(or
typists,
to
be
more
accurate)
have
found
the
authors
of
a
fretful
age
only
too
receptive
of
their
mercantile
suggestions.
Yes,
yes;
I
know
as
well
as
any
man
that
reforms
were
needed
in
the
relations
between
author
and
publisher.
Who
knows
better
than
I
that
your
representative
author
face
to
face
with
your
representative
publisher
was,
is,
and
ever
will
be,
at
a
ludicrous
disadvantage?
And
there
is
no
reason
in
the
nature
and
the
decency
of
things
why
this
wrong
should
not
by
some
contrivance
be
remedied.
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