New-York tribune., 1907-08-04
GI,e ateAa2!22oor1k G1saaeatess
SUNDAY. AUGUST I, 1907.

<ot long ago We referred TO a letter in The
1,ul,n Times complaining of the indecent
novels Of the day and limiting that some oi
1l,.lo were written by women a woman
Who Writes For Her Bread makes furl0hS
r,uly, pointing out that Indecent movers Were
written hy men before and since the days oil
tln immortal Tom Jones. and nothing Siilu'
lud declaring; that complaints IN TINS matter
,rc due 10 SIX jealousy. II seems that WIN
certain great ai:d generous exceptions men
want i, knci, women out: they are Jealous
Jealous. iralolIs." Il you doubt this, "rf'a re-
views written ny m.n Of novels written By
,yoTnn, and notice their air Of patronage anu
irr,,3,i..I,c," If YOU are still skeptica then
.rraI notices of any play by woman ana
se. how >clubhly it is treated, not because
II !, bad. but because it Is written by
woman" This irate lady ought to emigrat"
to America where sex jealousy l. uhhtaro
rf and the women who write novels ana plays
ar. Judged on their merits and are never
cy1'ul.cd their frequent and rcSoundIng success.
Meanwhile, if she viii pause to reflect, she will
srr HAT there has indeed been an increase in
Nh, number of novels which, if not precisely
inIrerut are sirlIy. 10 ~ay the least, and that
more than one woman has been reSp0nNiblc'
hian- with a horde Of men, for tins loathly
circumstance Moreover, not all the talk III
9hr world about the equality Of the sexes, VIII
over do away with the fact that there is some
thing especially dc.lorahle about the writing
OF an indecent novel by 4 woman.
Mr. Percy Fitzgerald. in The Athennum,
complains that not enough honor has been
s-cn,lercd to Laurence Stornc ana explains what
nc himself has dcnc u repair this neglect 1t
seems that since he published his LIE o1
S-esuc some forjy-od years a." the only other
similar tributes paid to the great Satlrl>t nave
ta.a Alr Trails monograph for the English
.IcD ,f Letters and Mr.. Sidney Lees sketch
IN the .'Djctiondry of National Biography.
Twenty years AGO Mr Fitzgerald tried to have
some sort Of memorial erected in York Min
>tcr. Of which St,rne prebendary bun
the sanction of the dean could not be secured
Now however. this indcfati-ahIc man of let
tcrS has accomplished his purpose In his let
ter he says:
Something however after this hundred and
forty years interval. has been done At last /
have lust modelled a sitting tIEur" after Sir
T.hu5'e yycIi known portrait Stcruc is shown
seated in his chair with ms hat and stick
thrown car"ic=~ly on the h"or. and "A bundI" II
pqrarg N his knee. II Is really not unSuc-
ocssfn Uresentment. Below : a solid red
marble pedestal on which is medallion show
ing the scene in thu sentry box. tnol" T'hy and
the widow. Th"r" Is tins InS"ript u. StrTi'",
Trel.nHarY Of York. by his bogra pher. This
has been placed in the ca hodral Library wh"r"
it Is t. be hoped poor I"ri"k A'i"r on" hundred
and forty years Of neglect. Wiil tInd long un-
disturbed rcposc- | think | may claim some
credit for my doubl" contribution the history
OF his life ana his fashioned likeness
MI Fitzgerald certainly deserve, credit for
all the pains he has taken but. rs "Th" Athe-
nruul" remarks, lie oyor>tatrS the neglect If
Strrur 'Tri>rrtm Shaudy" and 4 Sentimental
.Iourn,y' are always hrin= reprinted. in fact.
there is something amusing ahont tn" way IN
which every editor of a new series of classics
zoe, straight fur these books Mr. Fitzgerald
ought to l." aware of the fact, too that few
critics publishing collie ctons If essays tail t.
l:.y, tlcir say about Laurence Strruc.
These teapot tcmpoSts are sometimes of
trl-ictne>s. a> Mr.. James mi-ht say. Wit
ness tn" bitter experience of certain minor
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