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A Publisher and His Friends

CHAPTER VI
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He saw you! Now, he never lies." [Footnote: Mr.Murray was in Brighton at the time.] Thus pressed by his correspondents, Mr.Murray did his best to rescue the _Quarterly_ from failure.

Though it brought him into prominent notice as a publisher, it was not by any means paying its expenses.

Some thought it doubtful whether "the play was worth the candle." Yet Murray was not a man to be driven back by comparative want of success.

He continued to enlist a band of competent contributors.

Amongst these were some very eminent men: Mr.John Barrow of the Admiralty; the Rev.
Reginald Heber, Mr.Robert Grant (afterwards Sir Robert, the Indian judge), Mr.Stephens, etc.


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