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INTRODUCTION
Which every reader of this book.html">book is requested to read before
This is a Hill-top novel.html">Novel. I dedicate it to all who have heart
flooded with stories of evil tendencies: a Hill-top Novel is one
reason. Hitherto, owing to the stern necessity laid upon the
publisher to assist him in promulgating his prophetic opinions, it
to proclaim to the world at large the things which they conceived
case in the province of fiction.html">fiction. Let me explain the situation.
newspapers; and the editors of these periodicals are timid to a
fiction they admit into their pages. Endless spells surround them.
would repel their Wesleyan Methodist subscribers; such an incident
drive away the offended British matron. I do not myself believe
somewhat ridiculous timidity. Incredible as it may seem to the
the truth, and yet preserve the circulation. A first-class journal
three bigots among its thousands of subscribers give it up for six
the effect remains: it is almost impossible to get a novel printed
all to which anybody, however narrow, could possibly object, on any
aesthetic. The romance that appeals to the average editor must say
received by everybody everywhere in this realm of Britain. But
expression of souls in revolt. Hence the antagonism between
once to the outside public, which has few such prejudices? Why not
or at least to hear it? Because, unfortunately, the serial rights
worth, as the final book rights. A man who elects to publish
newspaper, is forfeiting, in other words, three-quarters of his
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