'"OF the making of books there is no end." But the old copy-book maxim would have little significance if the books either well or ill written had not secured publishers. Despite the assertion that '<Barabbas was a publisher," the publisher isa most useful person. He makes or breaks the fortune of the budding author. We have in London at present a very charming, cultivated young Scotchman, Mr. John Macqueen, who is becoming the leading publisher of England, now that the fortunes of Messrs. Chapman and Hall, and the Bentleys, seem to he somewhat on the wane, to judge by their slender lists of new books. Mr. Macqucen secured the old Rivington interests and he has steadily built up the fallen fortunes of that well-known house.
Among his earlier works P® he secured Clement Scott's From the Bells to King Arthur, a royal tribute to Sir Henry Irving by England's dramatic essayist of the century.
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