Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-02-24

The lady correspondents Of the press in wash
ington are becoming an established institution,
and p very well paid one too. Harper's Bd=ar
says; Mrs. Mary Clenmer Anes, for example,
who writes for the Independent and Brooklyn
Union, is paid a salary Of $4,000 per annuH'
which is more, we suspect, than is PAID TO any
man correspondent in Washington MIS-
Harriet Prescott Spofford is paid for correspon-
dence $4,000 q yesr, and writes articles for
papers and magazines besides Miss Snesd
e Miss Grundy') sends pleasant letters to the
Hora for 81 200 year, and writes to the
Springfield Republican, Louisville Journal. and
Baltimore Saturday Night, for which she is
paid large sums of gold. Mrs. Grace Green
wood Lippncott has written considerably his
winter for the Tribune. for which, of course,
che obtains her own price Mrs. Msris A.
stetsOn, of Boston, sends lively letters to the
Boston Uatchmaa and Reflector, and to some
paper printed in many millions out West
Kansas or some such country as that. Probably
one reason why these lady correspondents are so
well compensated is, that aside from their
sbility they attend very closely to their duties
do not pervade places where much Bourbon,
late night. and bad cigars are consumed, and do
not indulge in sinful g.mes
Like cures like, and like catches like. at
takes a rogue to catch a rogue" says the pro
verb and it takes Bostonian to catch one OF
the Boston school of men, says recent history.
A party lately caught is game well worth the
taking, being no less parsonage than James
Russell Lowell while the party who cstches
the weasel asleep is of the Boston -fdrerifser.
In Lowel's last and most delightful volume,
my Study Windows" appear, one of his keen,
learned essays on Pope, in which occurs this
sentence:
And Was it not in this age that loose Dick
Steele paid his wife the finest compliment ever
paid to woman, when he said 9 that to know her
WAS liberal educa,ion;''
upon which the .7dpeTtiscr comments as follows;
Now Thscker ay hiss bein beforehand with Mr..
Lowell in csll ing Steele's famous sentence "the
finest compli nent to a oman that perhaps ever
was offered D." But we do not recognize the
sentence it self in Mr.. LoWell's tame version and
misapplic alton. In the forty-ninth number OF
the Tat Ter occurs the following psssA ge;
Tho ugh her mien carries much more invita-
ton tb an command, 10 behold her is an immedi-
ate C leck to loose behavior to love her is a
liber Al education
T ais, however, does not refer to Steele's wife,
the prudsh and hdgetty - Miss Scurlo'k. the
q dearest Prue - Of his amusing published cor
sspondence 1t purports to describe ''Asps tis, -
, Jut the fictitious meme has been geneI ally IN
derstood to refer TO the Lady Elizabeth H Sstings,
charming woman of that era, whom Co ugreve
also admired. Indeed it appears that tn s IN
lucky sentence has been accredited to Con greve
by 60 correct writer as Leigh Hunt, AZ we
learn from Mr. Bartlett's sd mirsble manual.
Now it is Of course possible that Dick Stee lie,
who was very fond of his wife when he was g IT.
ting sober and wanted guinea. was writir G
about her instead Of the Lady Elizabeth Hast =
ings. and that Mr. Lowell has exclusive infor-
nation to that effect. But from his substitu-
ton Of a word which takes half the poetry out Of
the compliment, we are induced to think that
haste has led him into more errors than one.