, 1879-02-12
TIE TWO PROFESSORS.
Venabie, OF Cincinnati, Versus
Mathews, Of Chicago.
Tho Former Charges the Latter
with Literary Piracy.
An Old Newspaper Extract Without a
Credit the Cause Of the Trouble,

ufcdit the uauaa Of the If0uple,
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.u ,.t-u.
tLe u3llntll91 bet"esH Legitimate Ass'@lA'
tlon and llfegitimale Appropriation.
Tie nuhtlcatfon In vcsteriay.e TRIBUNE, In
rcmutsr,rss p.rallel columns, OF some thoughts
~ prof ~ n vcnahte. NJ t.tnrinnatt, IN
I" I,ooke ,nd nea,l,uot.n - md ao,ne reflections OF
l'rof ,latrcvs. 1T thfs ritz. frotn At, casay en-
titlcd t.pr,cs.ortl,tna OF nupks am, ThtnRs,''
delivered "unou tl,u mcjlowtpe Of occsson,"
re.ncct,ra,v In 1sG7 auf fA;G. made out obuut pB
nrc.tv n nr,ma farIc ca.e uf nlnptas,sm On tile
rr,, NJ rrr, W,,hrw. ns In. ,o,nc Ia light since
Mr,. Ka,c N. floroctt arIiruucd the Rev.
Jnscnb t,nol, Tar cytcnsivc literary crihbur
pr,f vcrn,,tn,. a..av nra, nnncnrc, In ,,us tML,
tavrot,ouoi nnp,h,v n,ui 1,rof. Mathews'
in t,,m,niss,enr, Eatou's spc,tal rrpott on
The upub,,c Libraries Of The United States.
Their 1lis,ory, Cund,tIot,, and Management"
t,renorctI for lie Centennial In lB7G. IL was
afterwards ;urornarote] },y l'rof Mati,r,ys INTO
uHours will, Men anil louks.r The Cincinnati
rro1e..or lad the bulro IN the Chicago rr.,-
fetsur, 80 to spcal, by so,ny u,ne years: AMI
the Eomm,yc Il. IN which the charge Of ptaa,sr.
Ism was brought, was authority tur the s.at.-
1ncnt that tho correspondence betwrrn o.lrr
m,rtous of tile twu cssuys thu, tl.usc wiitSl,
lnynely appeared side hy side III tic aforesaid
poral.cl columns wns almost a. rDmplc,r, Tie
coincidence tciwecn thr quoted ,ort!uas
0f the two productions nas suiucthtng
,ror,.+tu,- Thrv were a. lie ,.r,, ,thrr
.'s. .'' 49, ~,.,,.,s. ~ " xs..s,,,..
~ t"u uIa a ",.,',.' eunu "'.,. san"n . -.
thls buhplc'ousIS hii'h'nH sl'n"s4lst tns Feh"eE
would bc Justified in exc'ai1nIng NTH Hv:4'<rrv.
tlut here was "Flat burglary 4. cycr was cutt,-
mI,,.d>"
nv -, ..,...,, ,.,,o,.,, .u,,, ., A..
~ us1 u'At e1p,aa'lon m'o''eu ''' ~ ,,.' ,nc
alleeeu p.ep'af'''s 1esaence, ~ NJ. l.'l's
avenue thtouen Tue aooh''"ao'e mixture OF
olory Of the Lowcr LIKE Iserlon. yesterday.
Prof, Mathews was found In lis cozy library.
,.a.",,,Is. ,,,,,o,, th.. rn,,,,r,.r,s ,,fs,t,,,
n'u appa'sn.y u'sa ,,.s ts ~ - 10 ,an .e"',
THE TRIBUNE, he smiled Significantly, said ho
hal. howed Its visitor 10 a seat, mud, Without
nnv nnucer,sary pa,aycr, wen, al the subject q
sut III,
"The truth is, ] ncvcr saw Prof. Vcnaolc's
cssay, nor tho Ohio Educational 4HouthV. never
knew he had written aucb MI cssny. In fact, !
nnsc, tner u,ho prof Vena,,ls wa,. md du,,'.
ut'e. Aue" WI" 'o4' 'e'Do's "1e' "''A ~9''
| now" ....
Tho reporter impaired to Prof. Mathews the
Information TINT Prof. vcnnb1c was thu occu-
pant ot chair in we-knevn private 'n,.,.,-
t'tn ol 'eaFh'llE III Cncl1''a''' h'to u'AA'
Of no mean order Of talents.
"Hc tint ~ It may" said Prof. Mathews,
| III Ind urrcr heard Of him Or b,s cssay, aipl the
.,,,. % .a" T osn ",co,,r, for tm;s similarity ur
n.y WY ..n III. T. tstntv stri," IL ,h.t
s Walsh .so, NJ, ~ c1r"" ram NJ. rssav ,.atl
sru'aworo ~ .ti,sr> hnt wi hnut ,ie a,ithors
so.asW.sse ,t ur n''s'' ou' "'@"'AN luz ""'"''
"a'E !. T., .',,ns 'o,,rc r,roo,,,, ,e+,on,r,
"oh ys3y probably y, 'at LUX ~i 1ss pt Tnsss
aha.ra.t ~ ~ ,1.e sssnx ~ - ss"s nnI,.IrI In
a nf I'm ~ naxsnssis,. usv ~ NH "' p1''''Atu :"
so'''o " ule s..4.. W." spap.. ~" ~
| MApk An 1Arnsss1oN ON nj AISp'
md remembered It. YOU will observe II
reference in" !" 10th % T. ,ss ssgy way }usc ; mn h!
penca 10 bu Just my own experience when d
ynuug man, and remembered 1t when I wrote
this eseny. rccollcct bcRun once upon time
by reatlinE riutaFrht ntll works Of TINT char
actcr, antl ! supposed vas simply apenktn-
| Df mv own experience Wlicii | wrote. But
when read nnythIng taut wiss, tO remember.
| read i over number Of ttmea untsl 4 u;
remember n,orc or lcss ot the ianEuaEc, parttc;
utnrly II there is any illustration used. 50
suppose, when / came TO- ,, wr!ts this mnttcr'
uml used it. Apprupriation OF this kul 6Gy
literary men Is cue of the communist tllattcrs
Of everyday occurrences. 1t tcclns TO
1e tic fate of every mau who
wfitcs for publication 10 bo charged
not nn autlor Of any note wllo las not lceu
accused VI borrowing again, aud aEatn. Take
| 1.Uugfelluw, far Instance. sp'lle thirty ycars
tifthua.s -Nuy4z;nt, The whale object a,,d eur.
ppse NJ which was to show up Longfcll0w ~ o
p!atarlst from, the Gertnnl.. The Scandinavian.
n,ul other languages. In Mitiord's edition Of
iitays pltcius tho editor traces every ll'ustFa-
lion, metaphor, alnl sisnilo tu so'u ancient au-
thnr,-EnGtish. Italian, treekt of i.at.t'.
ana yet lAu "olao' ctclt"eHsat oS''eaLs