n. Messrs. Lewis and Lewis were instructed to take out immediate
injunction against the publication in both England and America, and
this information, at once cabled across, warning all publishers in the
United States, exploded the plot, effectually frustrating the
elaborate machinations of those engaged in it._

_SEIZURE OF MR WHISTLER'S PIRATED WRITINGS_

[Sidenote: _"New York Herald," London Edition, March 23,
1890._]

_This pirated collection of letters, writings, &c., to whose
frustrated publication in this country and America we have already
alluded, was seized in Antwerp, at the printers', on Friday last--the
very day of its contracted delivery. The persistent and really
desperate speculator in this volume of difficult birth, baffled in his
attempt to produce it in London and New York had been tracked to
Antwerp by Messrs. Lewis and Lewis; and he was finally brought down by
Maitre Maeterlinck, the distinguished lawyer of that city._

_THE EXPLODED PLOT_

[Sidenote: _"Pall Mall Gazette," March 27, 1890._]

_With regard to this matter, to which we have already alluded on a
previous occasion, Messrs. Lewis and Lewis have received the following
letter from Messrs. Field and Tuer, of the Leadenhall Press, dated
March 25, 1890:--_

_"We have seen the paragraph in yesterday's 'Pall Mall Gazette'
relating to the publication of Mr. Whistler's letters. You may like to
know that we recently put into type for a certain person a series of
Mr. Whistlers letters and other matter, taking it for granted that Mr.
Whistler had given permission. Quite recently, however, and
fortunately in time to stop the work being printed, we were told that
Mr. Whistler objected to his letters being published. We then sent for
the person in question, and told him that until he obtained Mr.
Whistler's sanction we declined to proceed further with the work,
which, we may tell you, is finished and cast ready for printing, and
the type distributed. From the time of this interview we have not seen
or heard from the person in question, and there the matter rests."_

_MR. WHISTLER'S PAPER HUNT_

[Sidenote: _"Sunday Times," March 30, 1890._]

_The fruitless attempt to publish without his consent, or rather in
spite of his opposition, the collected writings of Mr. Whistler has
developed into a species of chase from press to press, and from
country to country. With an