The sun., 1883-12-30

curious duncesp And what harm. in the
long run. did nll the envy OF all the
ounces In the world ever do to any
man Of real mcrit2 What writer's place In
the estimation of mankind N ever lxod by any
writings except his own? Who would In our
time know that Dryden and Pope ever had
single enemy If thcy had not themselves been
an iniudicious AS to toll Us so? You may rely
on this, that there are very few authors living.
and certainly not ono OF your detractors VINO
would not most gladly take your literary vexa-
tions for the credit OF having written your
worst work" LMacauay was mistaken
here. Ho did not know that ono OF these de-
tractors would ono day publish Vanity Fair"
u novel whose superiority to the best of Bui-
wer's nobody. we imagine. would deny.l H.
however you really wish to be free from do
traction. | can very easily put you in the way
of being so. Bring out II succession OF poems
as bad as Mr.. Robert Montgomerys Luthor.
and of prose works in tho style ot MIR. Gioig
Warren Hastings and will undertake that
in "a few years you shall have completely ST.
lcncod malevolencc. To think that you Will
ever silence 1t while you continue to write what
is Immediately reprinted nt Philadelphia
Paris and Brussels would bo absurd
The production OF Pelham" was tho most
important event Of that part of Bulwer's life
which Is embraccu III mo preseht ihs'"''uon.'
the interesting biography uhuer'"koh o' MS
son. We have mainly dweit NJ tnis .'me OH 'ho
reception given to this book and to the group OF
novels TO which it belongs because the other
questions and topics suggested by the author 8
life nav be moro iutclligently considered In the
light OF tho revelations to be subsequently
made. We should add that the purpose
which the author of Pelham had
in view, and which he had the satisfac-
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