LITERARY PROPERTY.
ITo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."'
Sin,—Will you kindly spare me space to deny in the strongest• terms each of the assertions made by Mr. Besant in the Spectator of November 8th Publishers have hitherto refused to contradict similar assertions, which are so preposterous that they are absolutely laughable to those who really know the- facts. But I think that there is a point beyond which to• refrain from denial, is to acquiesce in the assertions made. You will see from the enclosed card that I am presumably in a position to know very considerably more of the nature of a. publisher's business than even Mr. Besant, and therefore I must protest against the public being misled on a question of fact by a writer who, in spite of his own opinion on the subject, does not know what he is talking about, and whose statements of " facts " have little more foundation in fact than
the exaggerations of a lunatic.—I am, Sir, &c., X._
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