Society Journals.
In an amusing article on Mrs Hqdson Barnett’s letter to the New York Critic, the Saturday Review says : ‘ To many purchasers the truth or the falsehood, nay, even the amusing character or the drivelling dullness, of personal scaudal and gossip is all alike. It is gossip, and it is personal, and therefore it is ‘‘good qopy.” It may be said that there are suph things as hqrsewhips, and it is thought thay men haye backs ; but a beating is just wfhat the paragraphist or his editor would pray for. Only an extremely strong and an extremely cool man could make th,e beating adequate to the offence. If Portboa was on earth' again, oif Amadjs of Gaul, he miglit have a happy tjme $ useful career. He- plight hapdlq thp maligners of quiet women and rgen as they deserve. But 1 there is little cba ; nqe of a remedy being found in this direction, and op the wfiole a popular author’s best policy is never to reacf a paragraph where his name is printed. This is no great self-denial. As for the unpopular authors, nobody them of marrying their grandmothers, of rqbbipg op of vyearing sflk Eafe Greenaways, hefted with,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 907, 19 July 1889, Page 4
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200Society Journals. New Zealand Mail, Issue 907, 19 July 1889, Page 4
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