30 JUNE 1894, Page 32

" THE GREEN BAY-TREE."

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, In your review in the Spectator of June 23rd of "A Green Bay-Tree," you take exception to our request that no review of the novel should appear before a certain date. Will you allow us to say that it was necessary to make this stipulation in order to protect the copyright of the novel in the United States of America, an arrangement having been made by us with a New York firm of Publishers, that the book should be issued simultaneously there and in London. We think it is not unusual for advance copies of books to be sent to the leading newspapers with a date fixed for the publication.—We are,