SCHOLARS' FACSIMILES & REPRINTS 118 N.W. 26TH STREET GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, U.S.A. On 1 February 1823 Charles Wiley published in New York _The Pioneers_, a new book by the author of _The Spy_; by noon he had sold 3,500 copies--a record-making sale by the bookselling standards of the time. On 26 June, almost five months later, Wiley quietly offered, as we know from a notice in The Patriot, a New York newspaper, "_Tales for Fifteen, or Imagination and Heart_, an original work in one volume, by Jane Morgan, price 75c." The actual author was the author of _The Spy_; and the two stories, "Imagination" and "Heart," were obviously imitations of Mrs. Amelia Opie's popular moral tales, published, as …
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