Excerpt from United Australia, Vol. 1: July, 1900Mr. Clemens' views are no doubt quite original, but we remember reading something strangely similar in the preface to an old but once well known work, The Mythology of the Greeks, by Thomas Keightley, published in 1838.And Hall Caine's Christian, too, that every milliner's apprentice was thumbing and breathlessly devouring what do the public say of it now It would be difficult indeed to name any kind of merchandise, whether in the shape of soap, patent medicine, bicycle fittings, or women's corsets that underwent so thoroughly commercial a putting on the eve of its appearance as that same Sadler's \vells sort of romance. Let us hope that the average novel reader, who reads just what he is told, and thinks just what other people think, will not turn round toe suddenly on Mr. Kipling. He can just now (just at this moment) command a sovereign a word for the first copy of his work, but when the rocket has determined its parabola, it is impossible to say what may happen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.