George Moores fierce polemic against the literary and social censorship of the Victorian select circulating libraries was a landmark in the history of English novel publishing. Moore wrote this broadside and Henry Vizetelly published it in 1885 both of them incensed at the arbitrary moral restrictions placed on the circulation of literature by Mudies select circulating library and by W.H. Smiths which had both refused to stock Moores novels A Modern Lover and A Mummers Wife. The significance o