New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-05-10
MISS MARTINEAUS CRITICS.

FECTvE HEARING
IFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE Ikub' MI
IoNDoN. April 2O.--Readers of Harriet Martin
cams Autobiography will not have forgotten her ire
mendous attack on The Quarterly RerHc; one Oh
many viudictive outbuTsts which inJure her DOM
There has been no little curiosity TO see WHAT "H-
swer The Quarterly would make. The accusations
were such as could hardly be passed over IN silence
forsence would have been tautamount to confession
Miss Martineau declares she had been t"iu oS
friend that her printers who also printed me VIHF
tey7a Thought she ought TO know that the tthicst
thing that had passed through the press for quarter
of century was coming ont against herln me quar-
folyo LoCkhaTt. the editor, was demonstrated with
bv Lady G.. and Miss Martineau lue" from the
printers that Nj. Lockhart went down at once 10
the Office and cat out all the worst passages OIL iue
review at great inconvenience and expense Nhe
further alleges that the writer of the article, MI
Poulett Scrope, sent word to her bya common iHeud
that its political economy was his but thaJ
he bopcd he was too much of gentleman to
have stopped 20 ribaldry or even jest; and that
must understand that he was not more or less re-
spousibe for anything in the article whichw COMA
not discuss face 20 face with satisfaction" McSSiS
1ockhart and Croker 1t Is said, made no secret "i
the ribaldry being theirs. She depicts IToheI ALSO
as proclaimiug at dinner party that, expecting 10
lose his pensiou under the Wings ne had resolved to-
MAINTAIN hlfuScI ny MS ptil' anu nav ''-'' ~
tomahawking Miss Martncau IN The quarterly
The Opqyicrly now says: The plain answer to all
this foolish gossip is that nothing Of the sort took
place: that there was no Hbaldry TO own, and no
wish or intention 20 destroy or tomahaWk'" iheh'
quoting from the ncrimmatcd article paragraph
praisiug Miss Martncau, the reviewer continues;
1.-THE passage the only passage which was or co"d
be represented, rather m,represeni'd aN HoaolN'
was a warning 20 Miss MaTtiucau that there were
certain topics which an unmarried woman could not
be supposed to understand and had better let
alone" Perhaps You would like to see the remarks
winch occa,iouel Miss Martiueau's anger The
whole article may be found in the l9th vol, under
the title Miss Martincau's Monthly Novels, and the
passage in question is this;
our readers have by this time had enough Of this dam
sci We viii only express at observing that
in her < tales She stil continue, to harn the
necessity Of miin- the number %. t @ Ne sf"uIi
loath 90 brug blush unnecessarily upon tle cieE oil
any woman; bUt may venture 20 asl, TINS maiden
saee the meaning Of the following pass &c:
"a parent has a considerable influence over TIE sub
sstcncouad OF his iu1li} ana an 0b;C."t eo"H0' o'|
M numbers 20 Dc supported by u,u UHtd'
Has the Young lady picked up TINS piece OF iIorhl'l{
been enes INTO high ana f communion nun 3o on .qg ,
spggc | ti u@as advice ON these matters into
aIi rSm ,CI T Wo"rae She FoIitician:
us my fortune to know alean Ben'hamitc spiustcr
maid who her iai' in oil crcmy puts ,..
And Ioi as yos re- Dbl ljcd with Mil upon Gluts' &C
DID Miss Naruucau the uictmei But no ;-,uch
character nothing 10 a ten'ue halm8eln \ .oma"
W. ro0p Mo dc9ims a,imst ,aaTtage!i
y0lng roman who dcprccates charity and provision
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which The Qao4glyc fteIso of The against charges
,rls.l ne inns itself has never couurscrudeI 10
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HCicc. MISS NaI,l-eau iel''t6 'I'' SUM '''''i '''
Poor Law" series began she received message
e. A., r,,r,.s tl,,. elltor ,,r,,,isi1c to suIport
t.o nr,r,..a r,f,rn. The Ministers received a
similar t,el,, Tim, is her account of what hap
nc,cd
u v,. ON the 1-th o. April So thai Lord Ntborp
introduced c pm ia, sEee,4 D. ~. 81" la -, ,l. n.y.
Hons d,f Ministers went nome to bed VIA .q. minds,
ltte imagining What awaited Diem ai tEe tI ahi ~
TiSs h-c,Ist ON te 18Th to md vcuccrt ana
total coudennH io" Of the new Poor I4" L,'rE 'yG5 l'
< ma S t.g , WIS ioi h, some reooie Who knew
more of the cement OF inc paper than the word III
t.ho'' an.
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