LITERARY CONTROVERSY.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 90, 30 March 1876, Page 6

LITERARY CONTROVERSY.

I have observed that discussions in the correspondence columns of newspapers hereabouts are not always conducted in the most polite fashion, and that there is in such discussions occasionally, a considerable neglect of the suaviter in modo, whatever may be the extent therein of the fortiter in re. These discussions are usually commenced in a tolerably polite manner, but as the antagonists get their blood up, the style of writing 1 is apt to become more personal and the language less choice, I observe Messrs Bolt and

Hooper have lately been, hard at it in the pages of .the ' Witness/ on the serious subject ofthe " atonement." It has been ..frequently asserted that aj woman is always determined to havO the last word in an argument, but this weaknes does not seem to be confined to the weaker sex, and some men are resolved to have the gratification of giving the parting kick. Though the | Editor of the ' Witness ' had said the discussion must end, Mr Hooper will edge in half a dozen, more lines, and, just fancy ! as young* school ladies say, winds up by calling his , adversary a j " pig." ; What a climax., to an abstruse theologicaL controversy ! I rather like these little newspaper fights occasionally, but when either party adopts the porcine line of argument, it certainly seems high time for an editor to exercise his power of veto.