Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-21
A GROwL FROM READE.
Hoo the Great En0lish Novelise Cri.icises
His Critics.

Ho,o the Great En0lish Nouelise Criticises
His Critics.
Charles Reade, the novelist, has been pub
fishing in an English paper series of let
ters in which he has undertaken to prove
that it is all wrong that men should be right
handed, and has advocated the cultivation of
ambidexterity, Mr.. v. C. Bradbury, of Gin
cinnati, having read some of Mr.. Reade's ut
terances, and being possessed of some in.
formation on the subject, wrote civil letter
to the novelist, taking the opposite ground,
and showing what u vast Inconvenience it
would be to mankind to make change all
at once. Mr.. Reade responded with tho re-
markable letter printed below. The Gin
cinnati Commercial prints the entire cor
respondence, giving Mr.. Bradbury's original
letter and his rej0inder to Reade, and there
certainly is nothing perceptible in Mr. Brad
bury's letter which could lave called forth
the novelist's wrath. Reade's letter is as fol-
lows:
No. 16 ALBERT TERRACE, KN1oH1sBR1paH,
April 13.-S1R: My privacy has been in
truded on by letter from you, in which you
tell me that you have only read garbled ex-
tracts from my letters denouncing the lop-
handed mania and disproving it by mass
of evidence; and that you are utterly ignorant
of anatomy and physiology really stand in
the argument. If. having thus announced
your disqualification, you had gone on to
say, land therefore will not have the folly
and the arrogance to speak positively on the
natter" should have said, ..this Ounce is
not fool" and in world whore nearly all
the ounces are fools, should have vel
| coined you as novelty.
But instAa d of that, having announced
your incapacity, you proceed to sit in judy
| .kent ON your intellectual superior "a mat
ter where no is profoundly learned, and you
are as ignoran as dirt.
Your letter is in three divisions-irrele-
want truth. a deliberate lie, uiece of imbe-
clle twaddle.
/ YOUR BAD LOGIC.
Every fool knows that the musical per-
former is an honorable except to the lop-
| handed mania. Here both hands do skilled
| work, and exercise the whole brain, which is
all that require. l have never proposed to
reverse the skill of the two ands. You are
working fol y out of your own head, and
forging my mama 10 it.
YOUR MENDAOITY.
That the left-1alIed the pugilist
owes it's forcs to the right side of the body.
pugilist would owe its force to the left side
If the body. It's lie. When a blow is
struck with sword, stick, cricket bat,
ETC., the reverse foot is advanced, and the re-
!. verse side is the fulcrum. But in the pu-
gilist's blow, whether with right hand ,r
left, the corresponding foot is advanced, and
the blow takes all its force from the sub
} clavicular muscles and the fexor and extern
sor muscles of the arm that gives the blow.
> Of course you may not be liar. You may
% simply chattering noodle, with no eyes
J n your head; but one or the other yoa must
be, to utter so stupid falsehood as the
above, and send it to me of all people.
YOUR 1MBEoILuY.
Who doubts the existence Of the lop-
, mania? And, 30 Iona as it does exist, OF
3 course many tools will be made to fit it; but
! even here your mendacity must creep in.
You suppress the reaping hook, the plane
: the saw, the gauge, the knife, the hatchet
the scissors, the pen, the sword. Correct
! your ignorance, my good sir; and as your
ignorance declines your self-sufticiency viii
,bate, and you will not be 80 ready to hur
them both at your intellectual superiors OF
matters where they are men and you are
;hild. CHARLES READE.
If Mr.. Bradbury had been familiar will
aeade's repu alton he would have known
r hat ha ia -,oara ,'.--'>. r,S ~
E refrained from addressing him civi
! letter.
Mr.. Isaac X. Yokohama, the son of an emf
: tent Japanese physician. and who has been
. ,tudent in this country for the past six years
las been appointed missionary of the Protest
mt Episcopal board of missions in Japan.
:. The most remarkable results of evangelism
: sork.among the Jews found in Sweden
: treat multitudes attend the public service o
. he Rev. Mr.. Wilkinson. of England, and Mr.
Ter, at Gortenberg, the chief seaport of Swe
70 den.