Remarks on the Harvard triennial.

  • Jonathan Peele Dabney
Date:
[1847]
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Credit: Remarks on the Harvard triennial. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT The following remarks were originally intended for the Boston Ad- vertiser, and adopted therefore the current style of a review, which it is now little worth the pains to alter. But the junior editor saw fit to reject them ; and could not find it in his heart, to drop the hostility there. He had been timely sounded on the subject of the article, by one of his own circle of friends, who hinted its character and aim ; the reply conveyed nothing like objection. When the piece was, in part, seen by him, it was declined on account of its nature simply ; though of what nature it was, he was just as well aware, two days before. The MS. was conveyed to the office, through the same friend, with the distinct request, that, if it did not find favour, it should be, through this channel, returned in season for another disposal against a particular day. To recover it, however, cost not a little trouble and delay ; which were only ended by the writer's being enforced, at his own cost, to give it its present form. . In lieu of acceptance, it was assailed in the B. D. A. with petty and feeble cavil ; a paragraph, which was transferred in a heedless mo- ment to the Transcript, as its publishers now seem to admit. The ed- itor could not be content to shut it out from his own journal, without doing his best, in dramatic phrase, to ' damn' it in advance for every other. It was a course alike ungentlemanly, ungenerous, and un- kind. If he was not called upon to render his reasons for the step to me,, there was surely as little call to give them to the public. It was not worth while for one, who occupied a chair in which he felt himself at liberty to be despotic, to give them at all. They could afford to be frivolous. As to an article strictly anonymous—coming through the post-office,—the writer of which could no otherwise be reached or noti- [See last leaf of this cover.]