MR. CHAS. DICKENS IN AMERICA
... The commercial morality of American publishers has been almost a byword on this side of the water, owing to the absence of any copyrLht seiurity for English authors, and, as is commonly the case with indiscriminate condemnations of a whole class, the fair fame of many honourable and generous men has been sacrificed to the sharp practice of a number of unscrupulous speculators. We believe that ...