MARAHUNA.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7122, 19 July 1888, Page 6

MARAHUNA.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE PBES3. <J Sir,—May I be permitted to correct a * slight inaccuracy iv your apr,reciatir« review of "Marahuna." The reviewer say* • in his first paragraph :—" This work hiIS • already received some casual attention ' from various English. . . papers. . ♦ " Marahuna " deserves more than —I is mere passing notice." It might be ln« , ferred from these sentences that the book in question had received scant attention - in _ntiland. Such an inference Is ft* _ from being justilieti by fact. I have so—* [ I twelve or fourteen reviews, from such j journals as tne Scotsman, the #• - James' Gazette, the Morning Post, j The Academy, and the .Saturday St* . j view. Many of these Journals devOtl" I the or-ditta-r-y coV.lmn to ' — —U——tTOUA." * 1 1 ililf flf if "iffr", sensus o£ opinion that tho book la cleve* j aud ciec-piy iuctu-e=>UriK; it is ti -oquentlj" -T; describeu us fascinating. The following sentence is tjpic_l:-" Wo hardly _n<W » < wfcuit terms to i;uuimeud Mr i£. B. ——rrlot!fc "Wataou's thrilling rouiaDce." This Hafvday uesoi'iijtiu it u» "a,very deter story, deserving to be read by the judicious." Tlie mistake of the Saher-' day (,-Ytiss Wataou) was evidently - not ruere funniuesM, but a genuine mil' take- It w_s tliua buiiiorou—y ce»r- — recced by one of the London dailies: "The Saturday iteview really should not -- be 'so blesoe.ily cocksure,' as —Of* .Pa.lmeraton would have termed ie —» the current number there is a notice of ■» ucw romance called 'Marahuna,' •-* author of which ia spoken of with the at- - most coniiueace a» •—tiss' MarriO** Watson. That waa a bad shpfc. For t_* benefit of tbo discerning reviewer, we tntf remark Chut-—lt—> Watson is a —roaoehouldered struppiug young fellow, who stands six f«:0 one in her stockings. 8&« wears a well developed moustache; «** walk her mile iv les.-» than t-eh minutes; and rather fancies heiaeU for hitting o«& - from the shoulder—a decent record for OS* - « of our daughter—" The paper then gi*«f - some particulars of the author, anel. describes the Look as a " striking, book*. 1 regret to appear to dilier from yo** ~ able reviewer, wnose account of the bex* - does equal honor to his critical ability «» his kind sympathy with the author."** - Youra, Sea. ■ •Vatsoh*