The Publishers feel that some explanation is necessary concerning the tardy publication in book form of this story. _Gerald Fitzgerald_ appeared as a serial in the _Dublin University Magazine_. The Magazine at the time was changing hands, Lever’s old friend and publisher, James M’Glashan, having just died. Lever was always eager to avoid trouble, and ever readier to undertake new work than to concern himself about work already done; and possibly--for there is not sufficient evidence to speak with certainty--owing to some trouble with the new proprietors of the _Dublin University Magazine_, he decided to put aside _Gerald Fitzgerald_. When he was rearranging his novels for a fresh issue, shor…
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