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Saxon Publishers	Saxon Publishers was established as a skills-based math instruction publisher. In 2004 Saxon Publishers was acquired by the Harcourt Achieve division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Achieve was purchased by Houghton Mifflin in 2007, and is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See saxonpublishers.harcourtachieve.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Secker & Warburg	Secker & Warburg was founded as Martin Secker in 1910 and purchased by Fredric Warburg in 1936. In the early 1980s the firm became part of the Heinemann Group, which in turn was taken over by Reed International and then by Random House. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com. In 2004 Random House merged its imprints Harvill Press and Secker & Warburg to form Harvill Secker.	2008
Senart	The French music publishing firm of Senart was founded by Maurice Senart in 1908. In 1941 the entire Senart catalogue was bought by Editions Salabert, now part of Editions Durand-Salabert-Eschig. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.durand-salabert-eschig.com.	2007
Simpkin Marshall Ltd	The publishing and wholesaling firm of Simpkin Marshall was founded in 1779. The firm ceased trading and declared bankruptcy in 1955. See reports in 'The Times', April-June 1955. According to 'The Times', 25 May 1955, the assets of the firm and its good will were purchased by Hatchards. See www.hatchards.co.uk.	2008
Small, Maynard and Company	The publishing firm of Small, Maynard and Company was founded in Boston in 1897 by Herbert Small and Laurens Maynard. The firm was in financial difficulty by the mid-1920s. In 1926 it sold some of its titles to Dodd, Mead and Company (q.v.) and in 1927 it was declared bankrupt and went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 426-430.	2009
Society for the Publication of American Music	The Society for the Publication of American Music (SPAM) was founded by Burnet C. Tuthill in New York in 1919. In 1969 the society was dissolved and the residue of its music stock was made over to its publisher, the Theodore Presser Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.presser.com.	2007
St Martin's Press	After the sale of Macmillan USA, the firm of Macmillan established St Martin's Press in 1952 as its principal US subsidiary. Like Macmillan, St Martin's Press has been wholly owned since 1999 by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008
Sweet & Maxwell	The legal publishing firm of Sweet & Maxwell was founded in 1799. In 1987 it was acquired by the Thomson Corporation, and it now forms part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory. See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.thomson.com.	2006
Temple Classics Magazine	Temple Classics Magazine was founded by J. M. Dent in 1904, but was not successful and lasted for only five issues. See the entry for J. M. Dent in FOB.	2006
The Critic	The Critic was a New York-based magazine of literary criticism published beginning in 1881. In 1884 the magazine merged with Good Literature to become The Critic and Good Literature and started a new series. The title reverted to The Critic that same year. In 1906, the magazine was absorbed into a new incarnation of Putnam's Monthly, which was titled Putnam's Monthly and The Critic for its initial issues. A small collection of responses from 26 American authors to the question “Has America Produced a Poet?” solicited by The Critic’s editors is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025

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