Smyrna times., 1872-05-15

Casn j. 1t is dithcult to recall even the mama,
oI aDy OF them, or to identify them w;,b .bo
SctlonS Imputed to them in the story A."
Iouthworth fairly showed that he 6orroroj
L Ime p!ot ana the Incidents Of Foul Plav' from
ner, III spite OF his indignant denial of tba
taId Ahe plot OF Griffith Gaunt" was
"sem "sem nrum trlal which took place in England
uerlved from the same source 1 %o vas
pIruo9 OF Put Yourself in his Place" !
.1Nen from newspaper reports of strikes and Of
OF England. /" tue horth
"hat are the most Seriou. CHARGES Mr.
meade brings against Mrs. Lewes9 on, ;s tLot
I'll" scene In Adam Bede," whrre Dinah gnrS
on ~ ner knees before the imppnitcnt Hetty in
t"c prison cell, aud sotlens her little. is bo,.
,"me1 y y from one IN " 1t is never too late to
menu' MhGre the young clergyman, Mr.. Eden,
Cell and makes slight impres,ion nm b;'''
nno'ner n Is. that the scene in THE Mill on th..
n'o'S' whtre Maggie and her lover DRIFT Ioose
Doat and are out together all nrbt is
ihheh from similar sc,ne in "Iove M, EttIa
love me long" The amount of tbu,Ja, r,,Ia. t'Iie
!" these instances is so small thai Mr.. I.,ve'
Ilsht weli afford to confess the theft If Shn
mas COMMITTED it but no one likes 70 no
accused OF dishonesty, however uniuStly. She
may however, take courage in purloinino
"m Ro ~ h'ustlIomS source as Mr. Charles
her. "'S u JUSTLY
:, Macanlay did not diSdain to appropriate both
iueas and words from Hume. The lIter in
nls history OF England, speaking OF the Puri
,an:i says Even hear-baiting was esteemed
ned'n'h'Sh and unchrl,tan: the sport of il, NOT
me lnhumanty, gave offence" Macaulav
SpeaGlhg OF the same, says, in his History If
EAGland, he Puritans hated bear. taiiiny
not because 1t gave pain to the bear Lut
~ ecause II gave pleasure to the spectators. "
ie"hHSon boldly steals from Dante when he
uescr'ocN the lovers IN . LOckSlry Hail." and
~ays' & ana htr eyes on all my motions with
Iauy-iove, eyes that on her hung with mu.e
observance dare no more to see" Cowley.
m"faIlzlhg on himself, exclaims tn. morrnw
Iet my sun his teams display, or in clouds hi ie
them; L have lived to-day" which >.ntin.n,
Dryden adopts in his "Eni.ymcnt nf The
present, in these words. ''Tu-morrow do INV
worst Tor have lived to-day" the fact being
thst both OF them took the sentiment
from WJ Horace, Congreve, in his " Man of the
0rld' makes Mrs. H'rwno1 say Ills better
TO be left than never to have loved, which
sage reflection Ienny>on puts into his own
mouth, IN his In Memoram," in thrsg
words; IIS better to have E,ved and losr
than never TO have loved at ALL" Macaulav's
New Lealander viewing the ruins of Iondnn
from a broken arch Of London bridge j, bar =
paraphra>e OF Mrs. Barbauld's 5 satirical lines an
the year 1911, wherein she depicts the Amer.
cans OF the future whiting England in ruins
and Captain Marryatt, in Frank MIdmay,"
borrowed his 'wretched observer on Primrose
Hill from the same; all three of them being
taken from MariuS gazing on the ruins Of
Carthage. Sam WrlIer's story nI The man who
ate three shiIllngs' worth Of Mullins, and then
blew his brains out, upon principle, is to be
found in Boswelrs Lille of johnson, :" wherein
Mr Beauclerk is Represented as telling the
Doctor OF gentleman who loved buttered muf. |
hns, but burst not eat them because they dis |
agreed with him, and therefore resolved to
shoot himself which he did after eating three
OF them; Many such plagiarisms could he
in>tanced; indeed, there Is scarcely an
author of eminence, in any language, who
has not borrowed ideas and expressions
from those who lived before him. Mrs. Lewes.
therefore, sins in good company, and Mr.
Reade may as we'll consider the beam that is |
in his own eye while he beholds the m ,te that
Is In another s.-Phild. Ledger