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" He should have discovered
when in this country that American statesmen (?) are so solicitous
about the intelligence of their constituents that they give
publishers so disposed every opportunity to steal novels
describing the nobility and English persons of distinction; that
tons of such novels have been sold annually in the West, a
thousand to one of the "author called Roe." The simple truth in
the case is that in spite of this immense and cheap competition,
my novels have made their way and are being read among multitudes
of others. No one buys or reads a book under compulsion; and if
any one thinks that the poorer the book the better the chance of
its being read by the American people, let him try the experiment.
When a critic condemns my books, I accept that as his judgment;
when another critic and scores of men and women, the peers of the
first in cultivation and intelligence, commend the books, I do not
charge them with gratuitous lying. My one aim has become to do my
work conscientiously and leave the final verdict to time and the
public.


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