A DISCLAIMER.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—We should like to draw your attention to one or two remarks in your review of July 8th of "The Woman's Book" published by us. Your reviewer seems to be under the impression that certain articles in the book are advertisements. Now although it is the case that the names of one or two firms are mentioned in the book, there is not an article in the whole book which has been paid for as an advertisement or for which any consideration whatever has been received for its insertion. We think, therefore, that it is not fair on the part of your reviewer to insinuate that the method upon which this book has been compiled allows it to be published at a low price. The book has been compiled on the straight-. forward method of seeking the best information from what our editors considered the best sources. Your article, we must admit, in the main is a favourable one to the book, but the statements at the beginning about advertising are distinctly prejudicial to the book and to our standing as publishers. We hope you will be good enough to remove the unfavourable impression these statements give. You will understand that our point is that the word " advertisement " as generally understood at the present time im- plies matter for whose insertion a payment of some kind or other has been given.—We are, Sir, &c., T. C. & E. C. JACK. [We most certainly did not understand our reviewer to suggest that the publishers of "The Woman's Book" had taken money for articles inserted therein. On rereading the notice we admit, however, that our reviewer's comment was by no means happily worded, and was indeed liable to misconstruction. The praise accorded by us to the book as a whole is a guarantee that we did not intend to make any charge against Messrs. Jack.—En. Spectator.]
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