All that he wrote was not taken, and all that was taken was not approved.

In 1837-38, the _History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond_ appeared in the magazine.

The _Great Hoggarty Diamond_ is now known to all readers of Thackeray's works.

It is not my purpose to speak specially of it here, except to assert that it has been thought to be a great success.

When it was being brought out, the author told a friend of his,--and of mine,--that it was not much thought of at Fraser's, and that he had been called upon to shorten it.