MR. JOHN ABBOTT'S LETTERS SUGGESTIONS AND REFLECTIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8375, 1 October 1890, Page 3

MR. JOHN ABBOTT'S LETTERS SUGGESTIONS AND REFLECTIONS.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —I am a reader of your paper, an old subscriber, and, on behalf of others besides myself, I want to ask you to let us have a little rest from Mr. Abbott's lucubrations. We may, perhaps, " read, mark, learn," bub we want a little time—a short spell, in fact, in order to " inwardly digest.' . This morning's supply from Mr. Abbott introduced us to Jamblichus, Tacitus, the man of war, the Demiurge, Mrs. Baeyertz. the Jewess's MoW&w harp, a Vurleyan trumpet, &c. Sir, our intellectual stomachs cannot stand this mixed diet. We want plain, simple food. Let Mr. Abbott unfold to us his secret of very successful money-lending. It may be worth something to us financially. But let him stop, or will you, sir, stop him (as far as your columns are concerned) from giving us incessant preachments on the Gospel according to John Abbott. lam only a nobody ; but I really am fain to think that most people prefer to be preached to by those lioensed to preach, just as they prefer to borrow money (if, unfortunately, they have to do so), from those those who, like Mr. Abbott, have license and power to lend. But, great Scott, the two things don't gee together.—l am, &c. s September 30, 1890. Jam Satis.