. Irish memories . me foes, this is a mistake,akin to being heroic at a dentists. However, thequestion need not now be discussed. That An Irish Cousin had satisfied expectations was evidenced by a letter fromMr. R. Bentley in October, 1889, in which he suggestedthat we should write a three-volume novel for them,and offered us £100 down and £125 on the second 500copies. We were then at work on a short novel thatwe had been commissioned to write. This was Naboths Vineyard, which, after various adven-tures, was first published by Spencer Blackett, inOctober, 1891. The story had ha
. Irish memories . me foes, this is a mistake,akin to being heroic at a dentists. However, thequestion need not now be discussed. That An Irish Cousin had satisfied expectations was evidenced by a letter fromMr. R. Bentley in October, 1889, in which he suggestedthat we should write a three-volume novel for them,and offered us £100 down and £125 on the second 500copies. We were then at work on a short novel thatwe had been commissioned to write. This was Naboths Vineyard, which, after various adven-tures, was first published by Spencer Blackett, inOctober, 1891. The story had had a preliminarycanter in the Ladys Pictorial Christmas number asa short story, which we called Slide Number was sufficiently approved of to encourage us tofill it up and make a novel of it. As a book it has hada curious career. We had sold the copyright withoutreservation, and presently it was passed on to We next heard of it in the hands of Griffithand Farran. Then it appeared as a yellow-back. o a s> <►J w XIfi <o TOURS, IDLE TOURS 211 at Tauclinitz then produced it; finally, not verylong ago, a friend sent us a copy, bound rather like amanual of devotion, with silver edges to the pages,which she had bought, new, for 4id. ; which makes onefear that Ahabs venture had not turned out too was a story of the Land League, and the actors init were all of tlie peasant class. It was very wellreviewed, and was, in fact, treated by the Olympians,the Spectator, the Saturday Review, the Times, etc.,with a respect and a seriousness that almost alarmedus. It seemed that we had been talking prose withoutknowing it, and we were so gratified by the discoverythat we decided forthwith to abandon all distractionsand plunge solemnly, and with single-hearted industry,into the construction of the three-volume novel desiredby Messrs. Bentley. This was not, however, as simple a matter as itseemed, and the way was far from clear. I was doingillustrations for
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