Butler
The 165 -- 81 1 3 -- 59 10 3 21 11 0
Authoress
of the
Odyssey
The Iliad 157 -- 89 4 8 -- 77 6 8 11 18 0
in English
Prose
A Holbein 6 -- 8 1 9 -- 8 1 9 -
Card
A Book of 0 -- 3 11 9 -- -- 3 11 9
Essays
Totals:
Cash profit: 62 10 10
Cash loss: 960 17 6
Total profit: 77 2 11.5
Total loss: 779 18 1.5
Value of stock: 195 11 6
To this must be added my book on the Sonnets in respect of which I
have had no account as yet but am over a hundred pounds out of pocket
by it so far--little of which, I fear, is ever likely to come back.
It will be noted that my public appears to be a declining one; I
attribute this to the long course of practical boycott to which I
have been subjected for so many years, or, if not boycott, of sneer,
snarl and misrepresentation. I cannot help it, nor if the truth were
known, am I at any pains to try to do so. {369}
Worth Doing
If I deserve to be remembered, it will be not so much for anything I
have written, or for any new way of looking at old facts which I may
have suggested, as for having shown that a man of no special ability,
with no literary connections, not particularly laborious, fairly, but
not supremely, accurate as far as he goes, and not travelling far
either for his facts or from them, may yet, by being perfectly
square, sticking to his point, not letting his temper run away with
him, and biding his time, be a match for the most powerful literary
and scientific coterie that England has ever known.
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