An Advanced Critic
TO THE EDITOR:
Sir—I find myself obliged to notice the critical review of the “Ten o’Clock,” that appeared in your paper (March 6).
Pall Mall Gazette, March 28, 1888.
In the interest of my publishers, I beg to state formally that the work has not as yet been issued at all—and I would point out that what is still in the hands of the printer, cannot possibly have fallen into the fingers of your incautious contributor!
The early telegram is doubtless the ambition of this smart, though premature and restless one—but he is wanting in habit, and unhappy in his haste!—What will you? The Pall Mall and the people have been imposed upon.
Be good enough, Sir, to insert this note, lest the public suppose, upon your authority, that the “Ten o’Clock,” as yet unseen in the window of Piccadilly, has, in consequence of this sudden summing up, been hurriedly withdrawn from circulation.—I am, Sir,