ABSTRACT
It has frequently happened that British authors have been indebted to American readers for encouragement by recognition of their earlier works, while as yet unnoticed among their own countrymen. Even when this encouragement takes the form of simply reprinting and annexing their works, and brings them no pecuniary profit, it is encouragement for all that. As has been shown, Thackeray was actually employed to write for an American journal, and it is certain that the American reading public have from the first shown a keen appreciation of Thackeray’s ability. This is shown by the numbers of collected editions, of his Miscellanies which appeared in America before anybody had thought them worthy of reproduction here.
