[A Publisher and His Friends by Samuel Smiles]@TWC D-Link bookA Publisher and His Friends CHAPTER XI 18/22
I am always happy to do either, in the thought that it may be useful to you. * * * * * "Of 'Emma,' I have nothing but good to say.
I was sure of the writer before you mentioned her.
The MS., though plainly written, has yet some, indeed many little omissions; and an expression may now and then be amended in passing through the press.
I will readily undertake the revision." Miss Austen's two other novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion," were also published by Murray, but did not appear until after her death in 1818.
The profits of the four novels which had been published before her death did not amount to more than seven hundred pounds. Mr.Murray also published the works of Mr.Malthus on "Rent," the "Corn Laws," and the "Essay on Population." His pamphlet on Rent appeared in March 1815. Murray's correspondence with Scott continued.
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