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Show A Canillil Publisher. 1 ?a the recent death of J. SchsbelKz. the famous Zurich publisher and author, au-thor, the world of art and letters has iost one of its extraordinary characters. charac-ters. He was a shrewd business man, an excellent linguist, a skillful writer, and probably the most savage publisher publish-er who ever lived. When he accepted the famous memoirs of Count von Ar-nim, Ar-nim, he wrote on the postal card, with the acceptance, the proviso: "I reserve the right to correct your infernally bad grammar." To an aspiring poet who had submitted manuscript, he answered answer-ed by postal card: "I refuse to be disgraced dis-graced by printing your doggerel. I don't return the copy because you didn't did-n't inclose enough postage. If you will send it, with the price of this card, I will send it to you. but I don't think the stuff is worth the expense on your part." One of his postal cards to a novelist read about as follows: "For heaven's sake, come and take away the unnamable mass of paper you left here for me to look at." An ambitious historian his-torian was crushed by the following, written, like all of his correspondence, upon a postal card: "You are making the mistake of your life. You don't want to study history. You want to learn how to write." |