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109 THE LONGMAN FAMIL Y. 109 in literature, for it shows him the difficulties with which an author has to contend the labour which is indispensable to produce a work which may be relied on arid it increases the sympathy which should, and which in these days does, exist between author and publisher." These latter lines surely form a very fitting sentence with which to conclude our short history of the house of Longman,