New-York tribune., 1875-03-08
1.-THE PRIVATE LIFE or 4 KING" NOT
TAKEN ALL TO IIECES.
.e Edttor Of Phe Tribune.

TO the Edttor OF The Tribune.
SIR permit me through your c0lums to
thank the vendors OF second hand books SIbiu 5ous
for the compliment they have unwittiUgy pad mo by
informing tie ers OF tho Tribune that IN honea
historian that have actually credited my authorities
in my work THE PRIVATE LIFE OF KING which Is nd
always done by wrlteers biohopAolis;s well snow
The firm enumerates a few Only. OF the humorous au
thorities have consulted "a If 1t dii not mention
them all in my foot notes. as every honest author should
Why did they not continue the list and tell
the UholeT truth, not only part OF IL ane
IN addition to those they enumerated mention that
havo used as my authorities LORD CHEsrERPELD
HORACE wALPoLE, sELwIN, PERCEyAL. CAssZLL. COLT.
JEssEr WALGRAYE and humorous Others outside the
"sUPPRrssD EDITION" aud ali honestly credited as they
should be.
And would you believe 1t OF these authorities
have actually been used in like manner by BRoADIEs
in history OF New York. by LOSING IN his Field boob
of the Revolution. by BANCROFT IN his history Of the
United States and others moro learned in book lore than
the vendors o! the Nassau street basement
Now1 respectfully ask you 10 pubs sh IN the tribune
tins analogous piece OF impudeuec satire you may dg.
nlfy 1t IL you please (iisayOwins all egotsnl "a NJ
reply 10 the communication regarding tue " PrTAu
LIFE KING" in yours OF the 5th inst The Language
Is ; & cos errors included -,
TIE arg ment advanced by the writers injrro ihs
reputaion OF my book is Just Ms ridiculous. as u nj
Lcaiy or any other vendor OF second hand volumes
should send 10 the TIibuue the following Criticism
which Is IN the words OF your correspondent eA.eP @
transportation of tho names or the authors ahl t"ci,
works "Slr: We beg rcspectluut to
through You, the public tlat tbe 50 called LILO oi
Columbus purporting 10 DO written " WlShlns'oa
Irving is impulent appropri tlon or othrr men,
works nineteen twentethS Is (se) taken from DIs
Martin Frrnandoz's 'VOyag,s 0f Columbus one nan
extracted from Las CIsas History with an ocuas,OnS
quotation from HumbOlts Essa Poiitlque and 'BrfS@
sons VOYAGES whi Irving calls book OF mueh re
pute, the resduum consists Of stlped lnsepOa toht
and vulgar additIOns-a more Outrageous apprO?rit
ton OF other labor does not disgrace the annas "
literary pIracy" Iryng should have sed IN l494 thrs
he would have been cognZl1t OF all his facts aud WOMB
not have made an "impudent appropriation OF othei
mems work" -. .-- ,u..-u -.
Let tie Atheneum be closed the Astor Library shut
up the British Museum aunihilated for according TO
thc logic OF Nassau street history hereafter must no
wtiten from writer's own o3seryatOn that suoh n-
sttutions longer required Dut an autnof must
conos4 h own work entirely ont OF his own head ani
plnck his facts from his fertile bf am
Will YOU please also inform the meddlesome firm they
hal better study gram before they put their soar
rous epithes Print and do 1t ace rung 10 rule then
solve in good English, and prove themselves good
ma they would have have themselves be-
eyed critics tho atbenatical problem evolved from
their commun calion. viz: what In tho rcsduum OF
book or other matter, after nineteen twenteths 10
taken (sic) and half extracted. Tho TIVE
thirds OF their artiolo TO prove u was. or "a GOOD
deal" JOHN BASvARD.
sO6 Broadway koh en- ,yTg