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- Title: Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Study Aids,Books,Reference,
- Pages : * pages
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It is a notes book. I am grateful to A. E. B. for referring me to the article on 'Shakspeare Criticism' in the last number of Blackwood's Magazine. It is a very able paper, and worthy of general attention. I ought to add some few explanatory observations upon the subject of my former communication, but the tone of A. E. B'. s comments forbids me to proceed with the discussion; the more especially as my suggestion has been made a reason for introducing into your pages comments which seem to me to be altogether unwarrantable upon other portions of the article in Blackwood. Whoever may be the writer of that article—I do not know—he needs no other defence than a reference to his paper. It is not on his account that I venture to allude to this subject; it is rather on yours, Mr. Editor, and with a view to the welfare of your paper. I cannot think that you or it will be benefited by converting conversational gossip about Shakspeare difficulties into 'a duel in the form of a debate', seasoned with sarcasm, insinuation, and satiric point. This is not the kind of matter one expects to find in 'N. & Q'. neither do I think your pages should be made a vehicle for 'showing up' such of 'the herd of menstrual Aristarchi' as chance to differ in opinion from some of your smart and peremptory, but not unfrequently inaccurate and illiberal correspondents.