The magistrate said that they were fellow guests that night, but next morning he would inform the authorities that some years earlier Granville had appeared before him for bigamy, was given bail, and absconded.
[5] and as a “wealthy entrepreneur and would-be poet” with “plenty of capital .... and a knack .... for making his authors feel that they were sitting at the centre of the universe”.
Works published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review included On Social Freedom by John Stuart Mill (posthumously, 1907), Milton and his Age by G. K. Chesterton (1909), The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster (1909), and Prince Roman by Joseph Conrad (1911).
The work on Wilde went into eight editions; it had attracted public notoriety because of an (unsuccessful) libel case by Lord Alfred Douglas, who was by now a "vexatious" "semi-professional" (and indigent) litigant.
He sacrificed control of some earlier works, but kept the most valuable, Poe and Wilde, which were subsequently taken over by Methuen; and a collection of essays, Portraits and Speculations which went to Macmillan.