332), says, "Even if the whole of the edition (3,000) were sold, Murray would still be L1,900 minus." Crabbe had some difficulty in getting his old poems out of the hands of his former publisher, who wrote to him in a strain of the wildest indignation, and even threatened him with legal proceedings, but eventually the unsold stock, consisting of 2,426 copies, was handed over by Hatchard & Colburn to Mr.Murray, and nothing more was heard of this controversy between them and the poet.
"Anastasius, or Memoirs of a Modern Greek, written at the Close of the 18th Century," was published anonymously, and was confidently asserted to be the work of Lord Byron, as the only person capable of having produced it.

When the author was announced to be Mr.Thomas Hope, of Deepdene, some incredulity was expressed by the _literati_.
The Countess of Blessington, in her "Conversations with Lord Byron," says: "Byron spoke to-day in terms of high commendation of Hope's 'Anastasius'; said he had wept bitterly over many pages of it, and for two reasons--first, that he had not written it; and, secondly, that Hope had; for that it was necessary to like a man excessively to pardon his writing such a book--a book, he said, excelling all recent productions as much in wit and talent as in true pathos.

He added that he would have given his two most approved poems to have been the author of 'Anastasius.'" The work was greatly read at the time, and went through many large editions.
The refusal of the "Rejected Addresses," by Horace and James Smith, was one of Mr.Murray's few mistakes.

Horace was a stockbroker, and James a solicitor.

They were not generally known as authors, though they contributed anonymously to the _New Monthly Magazine_, which was conducted by Campbell the poet.