This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... the famous Frenchwoman more explicit than that indicated above. We cannot agree with Mrs. Ward that by calling her heroine Julie, and by the 'references and passages ' to which she alludes, she has made her debt to Mile, de Lespinasse 'sufficiently plain.' The debt is too great, too comprehensive, to be disposed of in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... the famous Frenchwoman more explicit than that indicated above. We cannot agree with Mrs. Ward that by calling her heroine Julie, and by the 'references and passages ' to which she alludes, she has made her debt to Mile, de Lespinasse 'sufficiently plain.' The debt is too great, too comprehensive, to be disposed of in this summary fashion; and a prefatory note, containing the fullest explanation of the source of her plot and characters, is the least which Mrs. Ward's readers have a right to demand." Thus it appears that the question is simply one of paralleling, in fiction, something of the character and the vital circumstance of the life of an actual person, as disclosed in that person's published letters, without specifically acknowledging the debt. Surely literature is full of precedents. But why not take Mrs. Ward at her word? Her only statement, here reprinted, seems to have been lost sight of in the clamor. But "ill blows the wind that profits nobody," and the American publishers of Julie de Lespinasse's letters have rushed to press with a new edition. J Babies without number have been named after President Roosevelt, but so far only two books, as far as we can learn, have been dedicated to him, a fact possibly singular in this age of innumerable books. The two are Owen Wister's "The Virginian," and Brander Matthews's " Vignettes of Manhattan." Mr. Wister's dedication is so recent as to be familiar to most of us: "Some of these pages you have seen, some you have praised, one stands new written because you blamed it; and all, my dear critic, beg leave to remind you of their author's changeless admiration." Mr. Matthews wrote his dedication in 1894, long before the boldest prophet would have ventured to sugg...
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