Carleton’s Fanny Crosby’s Life-Story, by Herself went over like a lead balloon with Fanny’s publishers. The text said nothing unfavorable about them, but neither did it say anything positive about the firm and its members, except that Fanny had cordial, “even affectionate” relations with them. The book dealt primarily with Fanny’s early life, before she had become associated with Biglow and Main. Main, Doane, and others indignantly complained they did not receive the recognition they deserved for