Longman.
Constable, in his communication accompanying it, assured the publishers that, in the event of the editor and contributors to the _Edinburgh Review_ withdrawing from the publication and establishing a new periodical, the existing _Review_ would soon be of no value either to proprietors or publishers, and requested to be informed whether they would not be disposed to transfer their interest in the property, and, if so, on what considerations.

Constable added: "We are apprehensive that the editors will not postpone for many days longer that public notification of their secession, which we cannot help anticipating as the death-blow of the publication." Jeffrey's decision seems to have settled the matter.Messrs.

Longman agreed to accept L1,000 for their claim of property in the title and future publication of the _Edinburgh Review_.

The injunction was removed, and the London publication of the _Review_ was forthwith transferred to John Murray, 32, Fleet Street, under whose auspices No.
22 accordingly appeared.
Thus far all had gone on smoothly.

But a little cloud, at first no bigger than a man's hand, made its appearance, and it grew and grew until it threw a dark shadow over the friendship of Constable and Murray, and eventually led to their complete separation.