"Declined With Thanks"
"Declined with thanks," is a phrase which often disappoints the aspirant in the wide field of literature. Works of the highest merit are frequently rejected by publishers； indeed, some of the most popular books in our language have gone the rounds of the trade without their merits being recognised. Frequently the authors, after repeated failures, have brought their works out at their own risk, and have thereby won fame and fortune. In works of fiction, perhaps the most notable example of a story which was offered to publisher after publisher only to be returned to its author, is that of "Robinson Crusoe." It was at last "Printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship in Paternoster Row, MDCCXIX." It proved a good speculation for the lucky publisher. He made a profit of one hundred thousand pounds out of the venture. Jane Austen‘s name stands high in the annals of English literature； yet she had a struggle to get her books published. She sold her "Northanger Abbey" to a

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