The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-09
INTOF FIRE AS
ACT OF CONSCIENCE

BY LA MAR0UIsE DE FONTENoY
n ONE OF the most remarkable works
OF the late Sir Richard Burton.
~ the famous explorer, TRANSACTIONS
from the Oriental masterpieces of
literature, have remained Inaccessible
70 the general public by reason OF their
appalling Improperly, notably his un-
eXpurgated edition of the ARABIAN
Nights" The finest. but likewise the
most Improper of them ALL entitled. ii
my memory serves me right, "a Per-
Sian Garden" was thrown into the IRE
by Lady Burton, after her husbands
1eath as an "acte de conscience" fear
iul OF the harm which II might do II
1t fell into wrong hands. 1t may be
remembered that she was a Particular
~ devout Roman Catholic, one of the
Arundels of Wardour.
The case of another one OF these
marvellous suppressed works OF his has
Just been brought to light. through a
peculiar lawsuit. brought by a lawyer
OF the name of Alexander. against the
| Hon. Henry T. w. Manners Sutton, eld-
est son and heir of Viscount Canter-
bury. and member of the publishing
house of Cope g. Fenwick. 1t seems
mat sir Richard Burton wrote an cx.
traoroinarily erudite work entitled
Human Sacrifice Amongst the Sep
hardin or Eastern Jews his informa-
Con being derived almost entirely from
oriehta!, and especially from Moslem
sources Lady Burton did not destroy
this work. which was unpublished at
hcr husbands death: and when she
In turn died. She bequeathed II TO trus-
tees. These arranged with Hutchin-
| son d company, the well known Lon
don publishers, 10 produce the book
from the original manuscripts
while II was still in proof. they were
| approached by the Jewish Board OF
deputies, that is TO say. the principal
Jewish representative body In Great
Britain, who strongly objected to Ger
tam parts Of the work being published
Mr.. wilkins. one of the literary trus-
IL
dertook to eliminate all the parts to
which the Jewish Board had drawn at
iention as being undesirable for publ
cation. and the publishers agreed 10
| bring out tho book in Its revised sorn
rms ARRANGEMENT was carried out the
BOOK being published under the title
or The Jew, the Gypsy, and Islam"
So satisfied did all the parties appear
with this agreement, that the Messrs
Hutchinson were not asked to return
the manuscript.
Five years later. Mr.. Wilkins recov-
eTed the manuscript from the publish
erS. and placed IL with Sotheran G. Com
PAM. with instructions TO obtain a
purchaser. The manuscript was adver-
used among other literary curiosities
OF the Sotherans. for more than a year.
ana was then purchased by Henry
Manners Sutton for $3.50. Thereupon
his firm. Cope Y Fenwick. announced
b iha, they proposed to publish the
in eXtenso. The trustees at once en-
tered an opposition thereto. stating
mat they had never authorized Mr..
Wilkins (who had meanwhile died)
TO sell the manuscript with any pub
fishing rights. While matters were in
this stage. the literary executors of
Lady Burton. sold whatever rights they
believed themselves TO have in the man
uscript, on payment of the $3.50 paid
Tor It, and for an Injunction against the
publication of any portion thereof,
either in England or abroad
The courts decided in favor of the
Jewish Board OF Deputies, and Lord
canterbury's son has been obliged to
surrender this remarkable work of Sir
Richard Burton to the board. who. II
may ne taken for granted. will take
immediate steps for It's destruction.
Their object in doing this Is only
natural: One OF the principal means
employed In al! ages to excite the
hostility of the Christian populacc
against the Jews has been the story
that young boys and girls were killed
by them for sacrificial purposes This
story is over n thousand years old.
1t has always been strenuously de-
MED by the most enlightened class OF
Jews, and no definite proofs of such