[17] "Notts Daily Express," May 10, 1888.
[18] "Pall Mall Gazette," May 9, 1888.
[19] That passage is not given in a reprint of the speech issued by the "National Vigilants," but it is inconceivable that a reporter should have invented it. Besides, virtually the same words as those given above appeared in an account of the speech in "The Birmingham Daily Mail," May 9, 1888.
[20] "The Scotsman," May 10, 1888.
[21] "Extracts principally from English Classics," etc., 4to. London, 1888. (Printed for private circulation.)
[22] "The Poetical Works of Robert Burns," Aldine Edition, Vol. II, p. 225.
[23] "The Queen v. Henry Vizetelly." Transcript from the shorthand notes of Messrs. Barnett and Buckler, of Rolls Chambers, Chancery Lane.
[24] Sir Thos. Chambers remarked that the books were not of a seductive character, but "repulsive and revolting," and of course that was what Zola, in a sense, had tried to make them.
[25] On consulting the "Bibliographie de la France" some years ago, for particulars concerning English fiction in France, the writer found that in 1886 French publishers issued translations of fifty-four English novels; in 1887, translations of sixty-one; and in 1888, thirty-nine. The total number of English (and American) works of all classes published in French in 1888 was one hundred and twenty-three, but of these forty-two were merely new editions, leaving the number of the translations first issued in that year at eighty-one.
[26] This is perhaps the earliest reference to Naturalism in English literature.