“Yes,” he said. “I would trust his opinion of a book sooner than that of
any man I know. He might not publish everything he approved, for it was
his business to print only things that would sell; and, therefore, there
are perhaps many authors who would complain of him; but, if his opinion
had been against my own, and it had been my own book, I should believe
he was right and give up my own judgment. He was a patron of literature,
and it owes him much. He is a loss to the world.”