New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-18


There is no charge from which u man Of literary
instinct 80 shnnks from that of plagiarism.
When the accusation is made against n clergyman.
other considerations OF higher moral character are
involved. Appropriateness conveyance, the
wise call it-from old sermons. is extremely easy.
There are hundreds of volumes Of such discourses
which are unknown even to the well-inf0rmed gem
eral reader. Besides, only small proportion OF
sermons are printed. and discourse may be full of
plagiarisms which nobody in an average audience
will be likely to detect. Still the practice never
a safe one There is always the chance of somebody
in the congregation well informed enough detect
the pilfcring The Rev. George Lormer, d. d.,
formerly of Boston, but now of Chicago. lately
preached sermon in that city. There happened t.
be in the congregation six Methods; minister's and
when they left the church. one of them
aid: II have heard that sermon before. or
have read it, Then the Others said 1t sounded
familiar to them. Finally. one of them
cried: " / have it! That sermon preached by
the Rev Joseph Parker. in the City Temple. Lon
don. and it was published in The London Fountain"
The matter being talked about one of the city
newspapers obtained the Ms. of the from
Or. Lorimer who seems to have been rather
handsomely trapped into furnishing it for publica
ton. The sermon of DIR. Parker has also been pro-
cured A comparison ensllcu, anu III was lounu
that DIR. Lonmer had taken without any acknowl-
edgment from DIR. Parker many sentences, and, IN
deed. whole paragraphs. There can be no question
about this for the original passages from Dr. Par
ker are gwen side by side with those in DR.. Lor-
imer's sermon. There seems to be nothing TO say.
What Dr. Lorimer does say is hat he has long been
an admirer of DR.. Parker, that he has constantly
read the sermons of that divine, and his mind being
saturated with them, lie may have reproduced
parts of them uncOnsciousy. III this be 1t is
of the most remarkable of such eases on record.
OF food, cheap food and good food, Englishmen
are now eagerly writing and talking. The coming
Winter promises to be a woefuly hard one among
the British laborers and the starving agonies of
India may it is feared, be repeated In Ireland.
Again the English journalist chants the praises of
corn-meal, of the small American bean, of the
cheap aud delicious French stew and soup. He will
nrobably have his song for his PAINS for if there be
ANYTHING as to which tho ignorant Briion's prcju-
dice is immovabc it Is food. The great ambition of
his inner man is to have enormous chunks of meat
three times u day, accompanied by plenty of
beer Cheese and miserable bread 20 10
fiji ND this fine bill of fare. he awful
scorn with which the English "navvy" con-
templates hominy. or samp, or hasiy pudding. or
mark and beans Is calculated to scorch the bchoder
The wife Of an English laborer will live. day in and
day out upon bread beer, horrible decoctCn of
stufI supposed 10 be tea, and once IN while
pensive cut of meat the proposal to make delicate.
nourishng stew soup out of the cheaper pieces of
meat or to make an occasional breakfast of hominy
and milk, would rouse her deepest contempt. 1t
will be sadly long before either starvation
or cookng-schoOls lead the English to feed
we'll; their disgust for new articles of food to
which they arc unused il as intense rs their adj
florence TO the coarse aud rude kitchen methods of
their feudal ancestors.
They had a tournament down at st. Lconards.
Calvert County, Nd, the other day. Two chlval-
rons souls SIR John Jones. aud ii, John Smith tas
they NAV for this occasion be called. entered the
lists for the purpose of breaking lance together.
Instead Of setting TO work after the regular Frois
sartian fashion. these gallant knights got into
controversy about the merits of their respective
steeds. and especially their time record. The con-
seauonce was that one enraged knight. casting
AWAY all artificial weapons smOte with his naked
fist the other upon the nose. The knight thus
churlishly attacked seizng great stone cast it at
his antagonist. Both warriors off their
borses and at il pell-Inell. Tho tournament. was