During the early months of 1862 _Orley Farm_ was still being brought out in numbers, and at the same time _Brown, Jones, and Robinson_ was appearing in the _Cornhill Magazine_. In September, 1862, the _Small House at Allington_ began its career in the same periodical. The work on North America had also come out in 1862. In August, 1863, the first number of _Can You Forgive Her?_ was published as a separate serial, and was continued through 1864. In 1863 a short novel was produced in the ordinary volume form, called _Rachel Ray_. In addition to these I published during the time two volumes of stories called _The Tales of All Countries_. In the early spring of 1865 _Miss Mackenzie_ was issued in the same form as _Rachel Ray_; and in May of the same year _The Belton Estate_ was commenced with the commencement of the _Fortnightly Review_, of which periodical I will say a few words in this chapter. I quite admit that I crowded my wares into the market too quickly,--because the reading world could not want such a quantity of matter from the hands of one author in so short a space of time. I had not been quite so fertile as the unfortunate gentleman who disgusted the publisher in Paternoster Row,--in the story of whose productiveness I have always thought there was a touch of romance,--but I had probably done enough to make both publishers and readers think that I was coming too often beneath their notice. Of publishers, however, I must speak collectively, as my sins were, I think, chiefly due to the encouragement which I received from them individually. What I wrote for the _Cornhill Magazine_, I always wrote at the instigation of Mr. Smith. My other works were published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall, in compliance with contracts made by me with them, and always made with their good-will. Could I have been two separate persons at one and the same time, of whom one might have been devoted to Cornhill and the other to the interests of the firm in Piccadilly, it might have been very well;--but as I preserved my identity in both places, I myself became aware that my name was too frequent on title-pages.