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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR MAGENTA, - I regret having been compelled to leave so long unnoticed a recent contribution to the Advocate commenting on, or rather criticising, my article on Bulwer. This would-be critic opens with, and again repeats, an opinion that my ideas are wholly erroneous concerning two, at least, of Bulwer's novels. Not having read "Eugene Aram" for some years, I took occasion, recently, to look it through again, and I see no reason "why it should not have been censured at the time of its publication because the characters were taken from Newgate." Although the remark might apply equally...
...forms a vivid but not unpleasing contrast to the ghastly and sanguinary drama which has so lately held the boards there. This week Miss Mitchell has appeared as Fanchon, a character in which she has often before won great reputation, and which is too well known to require comment. It is also needless to say that the principal characters have lost none of their former charm and attraction in the hands of Miss Mitchell and Mr. Shewell...
This remark naturally will remind many of the latest case of suspension, which for a time excited no little comment, and has not yet been wholly forgotten. Of this case it is not my intention to speak particularly, but it has occurred to me that, however officious it may appear, still it is not altogether inappropriate to mention one or two objectionable things in the laws and in their administration...