Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-16
TIE STORY OF A PaINcE-ArTEMP i
TO REVIVE AN OLD SCANDAL.

A story recsntly gained currency that
the English Government was making an
effort so buy up the few remaining sets OF
the Hush Memoirs, in two volumes, of the
private life of George ". of England
volumes which detail the amours of that
dissOlute Prince, and deal with his de-
baucheries and his defiance of the common
decencies OF life. The rumor has revived
some interest in these remarkable books
which the royalfamily of England atone time
attempted to suppress, but without avail,
since so copious have bean the published
extracts from the work that the world
knows in a general way all there is init
worth knowing. It Is not at all probable
that any recent effort has been made to
buy up the remaiDingvolumes. 1t is mora
likely that the advertisement, offering ST.
500 reward for the books, was in the inter-
est OF some shrswd publisher, who pro.
poses to Bpecrlate upon the morbid taste for
the Illicit. However, the interest awak-
sne3 has baen sufficiently great to induce
the inter Ocean of Chicago to publish on
the 10Th inst. seven columns of a sy-
nopsis and extracts from the work,
which it had no difficulty in procuring.
New, the truth is that the Hush me-
MORA with all their amorous details of the
profigscY and Hbertinism of the accom-
plished Prince, are easily Obtainablo. All
the supposed excitement about the re-
newed attempt to suppress the work is
manufactured for the occasion, and is, as
we minated, in the interest of some pub
fishing house. The original work by Rob-
ert Hush, and which historical data shows
is practically correct, was printed in
$780, The author did not produce it, he
says, as the result of any sudden impulse,
nor was it founded upon any crude and un.
digas.6d plan, but the work was the task
Of some years of collation. of authentic in
formation. This edition the English Gov.
eraIent SO far succeeded in suppressing
shst In brief time it became difficult TO
Obtain copy. The subsequent publ.
cation of the Greville Memoirs re.
vived the interest in the times of George
~, and accordingly in March, 1875, Ad-
ans, Victor & Co., 9S William street, New
York, republished the Memoirs, the issue
being reprint from the original London
edition by Fisher, Son & P. jackson, New
gate street, 1880. Tne Inter. Ocean and the
dispatches sllege that but three copies of
the work are in existence, but of the
reprint of 1875 many copies are to be had.
and one is before US as we write. In the
same year, 1875. "John Banvard, artist"
published from New York a work entitled
g The Private Life of q King" which en-
bodied the chief recitals of the Hush
Memoirs. It is a garbled, mutilsted and
Indifferent edition of the first named, but
contains the material reoitals, and some ad-
ditional text regarding moaarchioal vices.
This volume is also before u.s. twill beseen,
therefore, that the effort to revive the in
tersst in a scandblous volume is very evi.
IDENTIFY in furtherance of the aims of some
one who would turn a penny by renewed
sale of either the Bsnvard or the Adams,
Victor & Co. issue, or both. We venture
the prophecy that the publication will
soon appear IN some of the cheap libra
~ forms now 80 common. The synop-
tioal republication, Therefore, by the Inter
Ocean loses its interest, and that jour
nslistic effort falls short of real enter
prise. The Chicago journal can just as
well enter upon the reprint of any other
lascivious work with which libraries
abound. 1t is probable. however, that it ia
bsss the Inter. Ocean has done what it has,
since the synopsis having been toned down
msy serve to allay much of the morbid curl.
osity which may have been awakened
among new readers regarding the secret
history of the dissolute prince. The jour.
nal referred to says in explanation of its
article that sit is not the intention, in
exposing to view the yelled side of prof.
ligate's life, to pander TO the vicious tastes
of the prurient, but to show to what base
ness noble nature may be perverted by
wrongful use of qualities that should en-
noble and exalt character. This is well
enozgh to say, 5nt it can just as well be
said of any other scandaleuz publication.
For so much as this notice of the effort TO
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msy aid the scheme of the publishers at
tie bottom of it, or the Inter. Oceans jour
ualistio enterprise, both are welcome.