If I am over-anxious, it is because I have let my hopes of fame as a bookseller rest upon the establishment and celebrity of this journal.

My character, as well with my professional brethren as with the public, is at stake upon it; for I would not be thought silly by the one, or a mere speculator by the other.

I have a very large business, as you may conclude by the capital I have been able to throw into this one publication, and yet my mind is so entirely engrossed, my honour is so completely involved in this one thing, that I neither eat, drink, nor sleep upon anything else.

I would rather it excelled all other journals and I gained nothing by it, than gain L300 a year by it without trouble if it were thought inferior to any other.

This, sir, is true." Meanwhile, Mr.Murray was becoming hard pressed for money.