In setting up & printing in Canada, we run one risk—that the sheets may be bought or stolen, & the a pirated edition brought out ahead of us. How would it do to leave out a signature, (in our Canadian reprint, up yonder,) here & there, (until a few days before Canadian publishing-date?

Howells’s notice is superb. And it will pitch the y key for the rest of the American criticisms. You are going to send books, now, to—to—to whom?—the press in general, or to only certain wise ones. Ⓐemendation O, no, I remember, now—can't let a copy go out, lest it be construed as “publication.” (I have got a very good memory, but can seldom find it.)

In a hurry, to catch the morning mail,