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2 Chapter I, a page or two further on, all editions read:--

Be it known, then, that Sir Walter, like a good father (having met with one or two private disappointments in very unreasonable applications), prided hihter's sake For one daughter, his eldest, he would really have given up anything, which he had not been very much tempted to doHis two other children were of very inferior value

This is one more instance of a misplaced apostrophe, for, as Dr Verrall pointed out in the _Cae Observer_, what Jane Austen hters' sake' Even if the antithesis implied in the next sentence did not demand this, it is obvious that the correct Sir Walter would never have allowed hile for the sake of one daughter only Indeed, we have a proof of this in Chapter V, when Elizabeth says: 'And as to ht that he who has kept hi for our sakes need be suspected now'

3 Chapter XXII: Bentley, following the first edition, reads:--

She was earnestly begged to return and dine, and give the exerted that at present she felt unequal toas silent as she chose

Pro, therefore, she closed the fatigues of the present by a toilsome walk to Camden Place, &c

The Hampshi+re and Winchester Editions read 'more,' and this seems likely to be correct; for those acquainted with the road to Camden Place will kno inadvisable it would be for anyone 'unequal to move' to attempt it

4 Chapter XXIII: Nearly all editions read: 'The weather was unfavourable, and she had grieved over the rain on her friend's account'

There was no particular 'friend' in the case, as Anne had proroves, and it seems certain we should read 'on her friends' account'

FOOTNOTES:

[372] Our references throughout are to Bentley's edition of 1885-6

[373] Vol ii pp 470-1, second edition

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following list of books is confined to the main editions of the novels and, with a few exceptions, to books dealing entirely, or almost entirely, with the author It does not attempt to include all the cheap reprints of the novels, nor all the histories of English literature, &c, which azine articles that have been devoted to her and her writings Many of these last, however, will be found recorded in the bibliographies included in Mr Goldwin Smith's and Mr Oscar Fay Adams's volumes

1811 [Oct] _Sense and Sensibility_ A novel In three volumes

By a Lady London: printed for the author, by C Roworth, Bell-yard, Teerton, Whitehall, 1811

12mo

1813 [Jan] _Pride and Prejudice_ A novel In three volumes

By the author of _Sense and Sensibility_ London: printed for T Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1813 12mo

[Vol I was printed by C Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar; Vols II and III by G Sidney, Northumberland Street, Strand]

1813 [Oct] _Pride and Prejudice_ A novel In three volumes

By the author of _Sense and Sensibility_ Second edition London: printed for T Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1813 12mo

[Printers as in first edition]

1813 [Oct] _Sense and Sensibility_ A novel In three volumes

By the author of _Pride and Prejudice_ The second edition London: printed for the author, by C Roworth, Bell-yard, Teerton, Whitehall, 1813 12mo