ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
To the Editor of "Punch."
Sir,—We think it our duty to call your attention to the appearance of a book that otherwise would have possibly entirely escaped your attention. It is called A Neglected Incident in a Company's Career. It is written by a gentleman with a name of historical importance, and contains, amongst other inviting matter, several letters from the author to his illustrious ancestor. It is full of the most interesting stories, although its accuracy is scarcely unimpeachable. As some of the tales are not entirely laudatory of the Company with which we had the honour once to be connected, we beg to lay our case before you.
We have approached the writer of the book, and asked him to withdraw it. We have not obtained a satisfactory answer. We have also appealed to the publisher of the book (whose name we would give in full if we did not think that you might editorially suppress it, as there is a column set apart in another portion of your issue for book advertisements), and he, too, has not seen his way to rendering us any assistance. He has referred us to the author, who still leaves us without a remedy.
However, the publisher (with whom we cannot absolutely agree) makes a suggestion which seems to us in every way admirable. As it is our wish to cause A Neglected Incident in a Company's Career to be as little circulated as possible, he proposes that we should write a joint letter to all the leading London papers, setting forth the highly interesting character of its contents. This we are now doing, as you will see from this communication.
Yours truly,
| (Signed) Benjamin
Brown. John Jones. Ralph Robinson. | Late of the Company. |
P.S.—It is unnecessary to state, after the above ingenious explanation and gratuitous advertisement, that it is highly probable that A Neglected Incident in a Company's Career, once possibly little read, may now be obtained at every respectable circulating library in town or the country.
