New-York tribune., 1871-04-10
THE QUARRELS MD CALAAIIiES Oi
AUTHORS.

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THE oUARRLLS AND CALAMI1IES or
AUIHORS.
al didn't think" remarked Mr.. Boilin, at
tbc end of his first evenings entertainment
with tEe Decline aaI FH or Ne hOoshan En-
ujrc. "therc was so many scarcr5 in print; Dut
"l IN in for il now" Something like this, we
eusnccs, il the reflection alike Of the Hon. A.
OaEc, Hall and Glr. Edward l. Sears, Lii. d.
when these two eminent men contemplate the
row into which they have got themselves
onent Mr.. Sweeny and the Central Park. MT
Hall Is pretty well known, at least by name, to
tbe civilized races Of The earth. Mr.. Sears Is
rcrhaDs in need Of an introduction. We are
Given 10 understand That he Is from lreiaAo'
Probably his ancestors were kings OF that
country. Like Mr.. H.lL and also ike Mr. SilaS
Wegg, lie is q literary nan, ana al pflhU Is
omen to him. You could nj show hlin the
ricce of English print thft he would Mt be
coual to collaring and throwing on the SPOT.
lie is the editor 1nd proprietor OF a pcrolleu
called The Nat;opat Quarterly Rerieo, to when
"Mr. Charles O'Co0or," tho Hon. Nelson DE-
"Waterbury,n "WljOf-Gen. Dix" and prop
ably some other persons, are suJScrberS' Mf'
Sears allulos 10 his friendship for Mr. O'Conor'
who once invited him to Washington flights;
for Chaucello. Ferris, who loaded him With IN
vitalions and i.2ac;::;:sy; 15S,tt5; i0r ~. A0-
gust Belmont, who sent him some money mot
"more than foar days ago;" and for other dis
tinguished citizeHs in style which has NOT
been equaled since Capt COstlean discoursed
of his conyiyial inlmaciCs with the Prince
Regent and me Dukc Of Kent Mr.. Sears
know all about Sh kespearc, Horace, Cardinal
Mazarin, Samuel Johnson, and Gen. ingalls,.
Aud yet Will such a man Mayor Hall has ven
tured to got into trouble. THIS vas the way
OF it:
Mr. Sears with that acutoncss characteristic
Of great men, saw that His HeteW, coming out
only four times year and having no paIticu-
lar circulation, was an excellent medium ior
Corporation advertising. lie wrote, therefore,
q long letter to the Mayor, setting forth his
claims an1. 1.a5kins for a job OF work; and
though he did not, rs IL seems, get favor
able reply, he put in some adycI lsements at
venture, without waiting for authority. By
curious coincidence, just about the time
that he wanted his bill for this job approved,
lie was urgently requested, IN the name OF
the Mayor, to notice a highly laudatOry bio
plaphy of Tie Hon. 4. Oakley Hail published
in a weekly paper. Nir Sears did not comply
with this request, and by another curious
coincidence his bill was not approved. y
later number Of the review contained
an alusion to the Mayor, leaving
il apparently uncertain whether Mr..
Sears regarded that functionary as a VILLAIN"
or Just the reverse; and by a third coincidence,
more extraordinary than either of the others,
the bill was thereupon approved Immediately.
Encouraged by the result OF this engagement,
Mr. Sears now printed the ordinances OF the
Central Park, and sent in q bill Of 1912 90,
which was promptly rcpudiated. 1t was his
turn to have coincidence now, and accord
ngIy Tie RerielC opened upon the manage
ment of the Park with 4 furious article, show
Ing that the place was going to ruin, and that
Peter b. Sweeny was chopping down trees
more Tecklessly than the youthful Washing
ton. Then Mr.. Hall and Mr.. Sears published
each others private letters, and told all the
little facts which we have just narrated
But before this lamentable affair reached the
point of open war, curious incident is said to
have occurred, whose significance has yet to
be explained. The number containing the
Central Park article was printing when Mr..
Sears tells us lie was surprised by visit
from no less person than Mr. David
Dudley Field. Mr. Field proposed to buy The
Rerieo. AT this offer M. Sears was astonishcd,
for the reason that he never had offered to
sell-and probably for another reason, also,
which prudence fOrOlds him to mention Mr
Field was inqulsitige respecting the contents
of the forthcoming number, and especially
interested in knowing what was to be said
about the Park. The negotiations for purchase,
however, seem to have fallen through, and Mr..
Peter Is. Sweenys annihlatiOn came of at the
appointed time.
Now Mr.. David Dudley Field is n shrewd
man, and a rich man; but we can hardly be-
lieve that he formed the daring design of
buying out The National Quarterly Rericr as
q commercial speculation. 1t is not likely that
he wanted an organ through Which TO answer
Gen. Barlow, because he has The TRIBUNE,
which prints all his communications gratis,
and gives first rate editorial notice of them
besides. Nr. Fields client. COL Fisk, has
bought up nearly everything big, including an
opera-hOuse theater, line OF steamers a
few railroads, a regiment of militia, some
judges, two legislatures, and firm of lawyers;
but he is not % literary man, and q quarterly
review would be out of his line. We can
think of but one other explanation Is it pos
sibe that among the duties Of the leading
counsel Of the Erie Railway Company is the
suppression of all literary" men who attack
the Tammany RngR
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The Roman correspondent of French paper Of this
city calls attention So the fact that the Italian press