Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02
Literary Scandal n London.

London Correspondence of the New York
Tribune.
The west supplies us with a literary
scandal touching a female novelist al
ready of some notoriety. In Miss Brad
don's magazine, Belgravia, there ap-
peared a novel under the name of Cirse,
supporting TO be written by Mr.. Ba-
bington White. It has been published
in book form. The Pail Mall Gazette
received it on Monday, and showed
that it was translation, without ac-
acknowledgement. from Octave Feuillet's
Dalila. On Tuesday, a letter signed
with Miss Braddon's name, appeared
in the Pail Mall, saying that the dis
covery of the theft has fallen like a
thunder-bolt on her senses, that. She
was unconscious of Mr.. Darlington
Whites deception, and that she would
like TO return the money paid by her
subscribers for those numbers of Bel
gravia in which Circe had usurped a.
place. What could be more beautiful
than this-whose sense of honesty so
fine as Miss nj. E. Braddon's? But
Wednesday appears letter, the writer
of which remarks that in a tOlerably
large acquaintance with professional
itterdteuTS, he never yet found any one
who had met Mr.. Darlington White,
and goes on to say: Several persons.
however, who ought TO know, have as
sured me that, as Mrs Prig remarked
of Mrs. Harris, there never was no
such person, and that Gree was really
written by a certain lady novelist of
great popularity - TO this direct
challenge Miss Braddon has thus far
returned no reply. The paper of
Thursday. in which her indignant de-
NAL was anxiously looked for, con-
tanned, instead, a letter from Mr..
"Cbesterton Smith," renewing the
inquiry for his confrere, MIR.
Darlington White, and desiring also
TO know how it comes to pass
that the Edinburg Review has pub
lished a certain number in order to
call Gree can extraordinary book, a
story of character, not of incident, and
fraught with a terrible moral" and
where that special number can be pur-
chased. The kind of fraud which con-
sists In fabricating a favorable notice
of book is not so wholly unknown
here that a discovery of such sin
would destroy, necessarily, Miss Brad
don's reputation, or that of her pub
fishers. Nor would she have fallen to
the earth under the imputation of
translating a french novel and forget
ting to put the authors name on her
title page That, too, has been done
before now. But to appropriate m.
Octave Feudlet's novel, to publish it in
her magazine, to impose a fictitious
Mr. Darlington White upon the world
as the author, and, finally, to be dis
covered in ascribing to the Edinburg
Review puff of the stolen goods
this is an awkward accumulation of
which Artemus Ward would call sun
pleasantness." Miss Braddon finally
appears to say that the letter written
In her name to the Pail Mall is forgery;
but the editor pungently remarks that
the forged letter was one in which Miss
Braddon was made to express a horri-
BILE regret that the readers of Belgra-
via should have been imposed upon. -
OF the actual charges against her, she
denies none. 1t strikes one as odd that
the book should be still advertised, and
in the same paper which levels its
artillery correspondence against her;
but very likely the thing sells ali the
better for the scandal. Another letter
is printed to-day to remind the public
that former novel, published under
Miss Braddon's name as the Doctors
Wife, was borrowed from M. Feydean,
who called it Madame Borary.
An INGENIOUS LITTLE MACHINE for re-
moving the stones from cherries has re-
Gently been brought out in Germany.
It consists of wheel revolv-
ing on a horizontal axis, in the
periphery of which are depressions
large enough to hold one cherry. Each
cherry is brought by the revolution of
the wheel under a vertical rod, which