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296 THINGS IN GENERAL.
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" Query ! whether he did . I doubt whether he can be a Londoner , since he says that ' an old country like England has the
great advantage that such theorists are much more quickly set the his down 6 6 usual lad for y doctor what JLondon 7 ' they is men an are Eng upon worth lish the . woman ' press He , does , and to whom not had seem he the to been di know gestin one g that of of
the PublishersCircular' is periodically committed , his friends and acquaintance must have been such as would touch upon hers in innumerable directions . "Why I could mention a dozen names in a
breath , of people , ' whom , not to know argues yourself unknown / who are sympathising friends or attentive listeners to ' Mrs .
Blackwell . ' The reviewer does not seem aware that she was invited to deliver lectures in London last March , and did deliver them , and
that Mrs . Jameson read the invitation in presence of one hundred and fifty ladies , many of whom are known by name wherever the
English language is read , and many others equally noted in our own country for earnest work in benevolent enterprise , for he asserts
that ' a lady-doctor who invited an audience of London ladies to make their daughters ride because the stars move in space , and
because the Spartan women made the Athenians clever , would at once he treated with proper contempt ? "
I . F . " Then considering that the American lectures "were previously known to the majority of that audience , I must say the
reviewer hazarded a singularly infelicitous remark . " " Yes , it is an instance of the sort of trip which a clever writer
may make when speaking at random and with the one object of making a good hit . "
I . F . "Do . you think it much worse than a vast quantity of newspaper criticism , in which the lack of truth is daily apparent ?
I wish that professional critics would remember that just in so far as they fail in honesty do their remarks fail in authority . The readers
of a periodical which publishes untrue criticisms , soon learn to make an almost unconscious subtraction from its statements , and
then we hear it said every day , c Oh yes ; but then you know it is in the hands of a clique / "
" But there is one comfort to sensitive Mends who read this particular notice of which we have been speaking ; the reviewer
apparently did not dare be fair to the subject , but wrapped himself in persiflage to cover liis retreat . If you notice the conclusion , you will
see how completely he yields the principle that women can become efficient physicians , while endeavoring to repudiate the only one among
his country-women who ever reduced that principle to practice . " I . F . " At least you must allow that in this instance he has kept
clear of one fault which too often disgraces the colums of the . The correspondents of the ' Morning Post' and ' Dispatch . ' have
been remonstrating again and again on the coarseness and slang to be found in the articles of this weekly contemporary . Now here
the writer has only shown himself to be flippant and inaccurate . "
296 Things In General.
296 THINGS IN GENERAL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/8/
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