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stance, with the Bookseller's name and ad- used to ride, and his footmen with their
dress. I have the American reprint of my cockades and gold-headed canes.
Of A. K. Newman, Le Fanu, in ' For-

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collected volume, but am startled at the
Second Series, which Moxon had extracted gotten Novels,' observes :
from the Magazines, and bound up for me— Mr. A. K. Newman, Minerva Press, Leaden-
of which I have made that Phil-Elia actu- hall-street. That patron of undeveloped
ally the close. Pray lose no time in communi- fictional genius held on till within the last score
cating this to him orally or scripturally, years, when he retired to take some rest at
Gravesend, at the ripe age of four score. From
64 New Bond Street. Every day you are all that we can learn, he was an estimable
not here, I set down at 2 shillings loss. citizen, and possessed judgement in his peculiar
Yours Ever walk. Remnants of his stock, done up in cloth
C. LAMB. to have a modern air, were sent to the great
auction-rooms in Dublin, Edinburgh, and other
A note by Robinson at the end of the letter large towns, previous to handing over his good-
is said to explain that ho had written to Lamb will to his successors. At this day there is no
about seeing the American edition of the representative of the old firm.
Second Series at a bookshop. The>-copyright A catalogue of 1838, " A . K. Newman and
laws of that time gave Lamb no control over Co.," shows that Newman was then specialis-
an edition of the kind, and he seems to have ing in Juvenile and Prize Books, " in Elegant
been surprised that the Phil-Elia essay had Embossed Bindings, with Gilt Edges,"
been placed as he had placed it in his own amongst which he lists no fewer than thirty
private made-up volume. It is also possible of Mrs. Hofland's works. Romances came
that he wanted Moxon to inquire if sale of sparser from his press, but were not entirely
the American edition in England was im- neglected, since in 1841 (for example) he pub-
proper, and perhaps if the interest was rea- lished in three volumes ' The Witch of Ays-
son for an English edition. The letter is garth,' by Miss G. D. Haynes.
very characteristic, and the last two sentences In the London Journal, edited by G. W.
an example or the charm Lamb introduced M. Reynolds, vol. i., No. 20, July 12, 1845,
even into his briefest notes. under " Notices to Correspondents " we
OLYBaixrs & Co. have:
E. S. L. Lord Byron did not write ' The
A. K. NEWMAN AND THE MINERVA Vampire/ although it was for many years
- ^ PRESS.—In a recent study of ' The attributed to him. It can be procured of New-
Gothic Quest ' I have stated that the some- man, Leadenhall Street.
time partner and successor of William Lane, Particular research into the later history
who founded the famous Minerva Press, A. of the Minerva Press would, no doubt, fix
K. Newman, " remained in business until the the time of Newman's retirement and ascer-
mid-thirties " of the nineteenth century, but tain the date of his death.
upon re-reading Le Fanu's article, ' Forgotten MONTAGUE SUMMERS.
Novels,' in the Dublin University Magazine,
March, 1862, I am reminded that I should " DONE-SETTING " : ODD USE OF
have placed Newman's retirement at least u
WORD.—Few to-day would read the
ten years later. Born in 1738, William ' Canterbury Tales ' of the sisters Lee, 1797-
Lane set up business at the Minerva Press, 1805. To one of them, however, ' Kruitzner,'
of which there is a notice of 1763, when it Byron owed his play of ' Werner,' having
is spoken of as established in Leadenhall " adopted the characters, plan, and even the
Street. He died on Saturday, Jan. 29, 1814, language of many parts of the story." It
at his house, No. 3, Gloucester Place, Brigh- was, however, written by Harriet, the younger
ton.—Sussex Weekly Advertiser; Or Lewes sister, not by Sophia, as he suggests. Five
and Brighthelmston Journal, Monday, pages from the beginning, in the edition pub-
J a n . 31, 1814. In the ' Table-Talk of lished among the ' Standard Novels ' of Col-
Samuel Rogers,' edited and published by the burn and Bentley, I read :
Rev. Alexander Dyce, London, 1856, p. 138, Sometimes, indeed, the wife of the postmaster
Rogers (1763-1855) is recorded to have re- condescended to look in upon Madame
marked : Kruitzner, when the Intendant favoured her
Lane made a large fortune by the immense with a seat in his bone-setting conveyance.
quantity of trashy novels which he sent forth This seems to mean a jolting carriage—
from his Minerva-press. I perfectly well rather, a " bone-shaker," as the primitive
remember the splendid carriage in which he bicycle was called. But " bone-setter " and