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  Scope and Contents
  
With a note by W. Hugh Peal, "Miscellaneous material from the Ernest Dressel North sale" and an evnelope to Peal from Parke-Bernet Galleries.
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 ERNEST DRESSEL NORTH
SUMMIT
NEW JERSEY

Portfolio Nob 4°

Corr spondence in connection with
Lamb Exhibition at the Grolier at
which many items in this collection
were exhibitedo ,

Including original pen and ink sketch
by Oliver flerford

Unpublished outline on "My Lamb Library"
by Ernest Dressel North.

Newspapers clippings and correspondence
re Exhibition of some items in this
0011 ection, held at the New York Public

Library, in 19 54.

 

 WHEN Senator Ingalls was reported’ as inti-
mating that'the Decalogue was bolished in
American-politics, we weren’ot inclir?da to take the
propositiy/seriously ; but the pi}! posal of the
Meyist hook Concern to abolish the Decalogue
fro V the publishing business seems tons worthy
ofgmore seriod consideration. ,‘The proposal itself
is somewhat mire. startling, and the hitherto reput-
able character 0“ the propos makes it still more
so. That (an Agrican politician shouldrigopenly
Commandments are net related

declare that the T \ ,
to American politics ”s extraordinary chiefly by
reason of its unexpec‘ d franknessflfl‘hat a pro ess-
edly Christian pub ' hing house/shoald propose\to _ v
disconnect the Ten Commandments from Americim/
literature is szllprising for "more thah its candbr.
It reveals a “, ew departure ” from Old’Testafment
ethics in holly unexpected quarter. (fit is true
that the . thodist Book Concern doesnio‘ propose
to rescind al the Ten Cominandment‘s athhnce; it
begins/{with .nly two: Thom} shalt not steal; and
Thou/shalt ndt bear false witriess' against thy neigh-
bop/g but'if it should succeed in this, other similar
p' _ ‘ ems.

Mr. Stanley has just returned from a dangerous
and protracted expedition in the Dark Continent.
It has lasted between two and three years, and has
involved a degree of expenditure for which most
men who do not think the Ten Commandments are
out of fashion will think him entitled to compensa-
tion. His manuscript account of his journey has
been purchased by a publishing house in this city,
and is announced for sale at $7 .50 for the two vol-
umes. The Methodist Book Concern, under the
firm name of Hunt & Eaton, announces in the
“Christian Advocate” the publication of the his-
tory of Stanley’s expedition, “ composed of matter
furnished by Mr. Stanley himself for publication
over his own signature.” They do not announce
that they have paid nothing to Mr. Stanley for it,
that they have made it up by means of those useful
instruments, a pair of shears and a paste-pot, out of I
Mr. Stanley’s newspaper letters, and that Mr.
Stanley has advised the public, over his own signa-
ture, that, apart from his journals sold to his Amer-
ican publishers, “there is no other manuscript7
printed book, or pamphlet, this spring of the year
of our Lord 1890, that contains any account of this
region of horrors other than this book of mine.”
Taking another man’s literary property without
paying for it is, since the abolition of the Ten Com.
mandments, called “ enterprise ;” under that older
fashioned but now obsolete legislationjt had a dif-
ferent name given to it.

The Methodist Book Concern, doing business at
this time under the firm name of Hunt & Eaton,
appears to be naturally apprehensive lest some old-
fashioned folks, who have not yet learned the new
ways from Senator Ingalls and the enterprising
borrowers of other men’s labors, might give to their,
enterprise its more ancient title ; or might even
suggest to the reading public that a newspaper
scrap-book at $3 a volume might be more expen-
sive than the genuine product of the great explor-
er’s'éown pen at $7.50. They accordingly endeavor
to protect themselves from criticism by the follow-
ing testimony as to the methods of book criticism.
Having some personal aquaintance with the editor
of the “ Christian Advocate,” in which its publish-
ers bear this extraordinary witness, we venture the
opinion that they malign even their own editor.
We are certain that they bear false witness against

their neighbor : '

”Do not be frightened by the unjust and untrue state-
ments which appear in papers, and which are supplied and
‘paid for by rival publishers. Remember that you can ar-
range with an editor for just as strong notices of your book,
if you care to pay for them, because the business of an editor
is to make money for his paper. and as long as you pay him
for what you desire inserted, he will treat you just as kindly
as he will any one else.”

We 11339, that this paragraph may not escape the
no ' e of any of our contemporaries, especially that
it may\ not escape the notice of the maligned editor
o£.the ‘ Christian Advocate,” in whose columns it
appears. 116. we h ‘pe that he will tell his readers—
we slihall be lad to transfer his statement to our
columns—whether in that journal [the publisher

1 u n
“ \ an editor for {Just as strong
faces of your ook‘if‘you care tq’pay for them ;”
nd whether hi idea of e “business of an edi br

bar, are excellent rules to be observe

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