The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-01
pRRoyEOus "REMINISCENCES.
Mrs. Rowe Has Remembered Several
Things That Are Not So.
Chicago Post.

Chicago Post.
without at All meaning % dise cred TIE
ward Howe now appearing in the Atlantic
Monthly it is important TO SHOW their need
of a more careful editor than they seem to
ii' That Ia a lady in her eighueth year looking
hack upon her gfrlhood days should make
errors and mistakes and that her memory
Shou1d he sometimes at fault, is not sur
prising but that an editorishould suffer such
errors TO pass when they are merely incl
dental and in no way gernane 10 the pur-
nose of the "reminiscences is surprising
indeed.
Mrs Howe says: 1T must have been in
the twenties that James K. Paulding united
with Washington irving in editing comic
periodical called Salmagundi."
II was in 1907 that Salmagundi, under the
editorship of Paulding and Irving, first APP
reared and its short life was about year.
William Cullen Bryant, continues Mrs.
Howe took a prominent part in politics.
but mingled little in general society, being
much absorbed in his duties as editor of the
Evening Post, Of which he was also the
Rrvant became connected with the Post in
1896 and part proprietor of it in 1929, but was
rot its founder The Post was founded IN
1901 by William Coleman.
In speaking of Charles King. afterward
president of Columbia College, Mrs. Howe
says: HE and his brother James. my
fathers junior partner, were sons OF Rutus
King who was one of the signers of the
Declaration Of Independence Rufus King
was not a sfsigner'' as everybody acquainted
~
very distinguished American statesman. was
one of the trainers of the Constitution. min
lister to England and a senator in Congress,
hut he was graduating at Harvard at the
time the Declaration was adopted
These errors occur on the first page or
Mrs Howes article in the January Allan
&c, and their presence there is due to sheer
carGloSSneSs on the part of some one in the
office Of the Atlantic Monthly They are alb
solutely unessenta to the narrative and
should have been quietly deeted by the
proOfreader or the printers devil, if by no
one else.
Charles Augustus Davis" says Mrs.
Howe 1.-The author of Jack DOWning's let
ters' was a gentleman well known in the
New York society of my youth. The letters
in question contained imaginary reports of
a tour which the writer professed to have
made with General Jackson, when the lat
ter was a candidate for reelection to the
presidency.
It is difficult to fix precisely the response
bility for this prepoSterous statement. OF
course the printers devil i'm the Atlantic
office must be exonerated, for he could not
be expected to know the authorship of the
that anybody who had ever lived in New
England should have so soon forgotten Seba
Smith. the Yankee humorist par excellence
of half a century ago and the author of
those letters. is. indeed a matter of wonder
Charles Augustus Davis AS Geronte says
in Moliere's play. Que diable alait-il faire
dams cette galere?" Mrs. Howe and the At
lantic editors will scarcely be able to take
away the simplest laurel from Seba Smith
to decorate Charles Augustus Davis who
ever he was