I feel I cannot close this letter without saying a word concerning the late Mr John Lane (Mrs Belloe Lowndes writes to the "Saturday Review of Literature")- was the case with the late Mr William Heinemann, Mr Lane had an extraordinary instinct for what was new and original in imaginative literature. He was'the first British publisher of many notable American writers, including, to give but one instance, Gertrude Atherton. Among the English authors in whom he believed for long years before his belief was justified by popularity was Mr W. J. Locke. I think I am correct in saying that Mr Lane published eight stories by Mr Locke (and most brilliant novels they were) before there appeared "The Morals of "Marcus Ordeyne," which brought to the one, we will suppose, fortune, and assuredly fame to the other. > Yet another of Mr Lane's early authors who was very much attached to hinj was Mr Henry Harland, and here again he believed in his authors long before the public chose to do so. What is a giant f The following letter aid footnote suggest that the word is relative: — (To the Editor of the Review of Reviews.) Dear Sir,—While thanking you for the space devoted to my book, "Love Stories of English Queens," permit me to protest against the suggestion that I was at fault in describing Edward IV. as "a giant." "He would have been merely a tall man in our eyes," is the statement of your reviewer; yet when the royal grave ■was opened in 1789: " ... the skeleton was entire, nobly proportioned and of the gigantic height of six feet three inches." The - quotation is from Strickland. By that measurement the king must have stood at least 6 feet 5 or 6 inches in life, and surely, in spite of race development, we should hardly describe a "nobly proportioned" man of such inches as "merely tall." Tours faithfully, ELIZABETH "VTDLIBKS. [The writer of the review is himself 6 feet 4 inches in his stockings, so that perhaps he expressed a peri son.il rather than a. professional - view.—Editor.] *
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18365, 24 April 1925, Page 17
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