[A Publisher and His Friends by Samuel Smiles]@TWC D-Link bookA Publisher and His Friends CHAPTER II 10/15
I desire that no notice of the authors of that work may be known from _your_ side. * * * * * At this moment I receive your packet of poems, and Shee's letter.
I perceive that he is impressed by your attentions and your ability.
It will always afford me one of my best pleasures to forward your views; I claim no merit from this, but my discernment in discovering your talents, which, under the genius of Prudence (the best of all Genii for human affairs), must inevitably reach the goal.
The literary productions of I.D['Israeli] and others may not augment the profits oL your trade in any considerable degree; but to get the talents of such writers at your command is a prime object, and others will follow. I had various conversations with Phillips [Footnote: Sir Richard Phillips, bookseller.
This is the publisher whose book on philosophy George Borrow was set to translate into German, and who recommended him to produce something in the style of "The Dairyman's Daughter"!] here; he is equally active, but more _wise_.
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