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...have not read Paxton Hibben's book on Henry Ward Beecher, nor do I intend to so waste my time after reading your review of it. But for the first time I am thoroughly disgusted with TIME. My first impulse, after reading page 48 of the Oct. 3rd issue, was to cancel my subscription. That page, with its rehashing of the foul Beecher scandal, would have a familiar setting in the Daily News or the Graphic. It is altogether out of place in TIME. For printing such a scurrilous attack upon one of the most gifted and cultured...
...wonder if either the reviewer or Hibben has ever read Beecher's brilliant Yale lectures, or his marvelous sermons, replete with intellectual insight and humanity of feeling, or in fact anything that he ever wrote, with an open mind...
...Hibben thinks Beecher was guilty. Well, better men than he do not think so. His own church, after long and painstaking investigation, fully exonerated him. A jury failed to convict him. A congregational council of 200 earnest men acquitted him without a dissenting vote. His own wife knew him better than any scandalmongering writer, and she knew him to be guiltless...
Hibben is out of his element when he attempts to write a biography of Beecher. It has already been done so much better than he could ever hope to do it. He reminds one of a second-rate doctor who was called to prescribe for a sick child. His medicine was not beneficial and the child grew worse. Finally the family doctor, a first class physician, was called. He did not criticise the parents for calling the other. He simply said: "Dr. Jones knows something about the disease he thinks is afflicting little Freddie ; but he doesn't know...
...HENRY WARD BEECHER-Paxton Hibben- Doran ($5.00). *Established in 1848. Mr. Beecher was editor 1861-63. The Independent is still being published, in Boston. TIME, October 3, 1927 *Not to be confused with its President, John Grier Hibben, second cousin, once removed...