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12 THE TOM AH A WK. [July 10, 1869,
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A RETENTIVE MEMORY.
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parentl A retentive y, it has its memory...
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THE LAST FROM HANWELL.
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im An ove inventive our writi mind nim h...
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Hereditary Peerage Is On Its Trial Now, ...
insignificant few . But , as we said before , it is the penalty of hereditary wealth and position , that their possessors' private lives are to a certain extent the care and property of the public . A few , a very few , notorious instances of profligacy or extravagance in Hereditary Peers bring down an avalanche of abuse on the whole order ; because people feel that while they owe their position to no merit of their own , they have only themselves to blame for their vices . Every advantage of education , of good open society to , them of wealth . For them is thei the rs . State Every provides honourable innumerable profession means of is employment . To the Stock Exchange , to the heaven of Directordown ship they , and need open their " Open hearts Sesame and . " ledgers Before . them To them tradesmen the law bow is forbearing , merciful . Pleasure of all kind , work of all kind is within their reach . They are stamped from their cradle with a recommendation to all society . Nearly the whole population of England , Scotland , and great part of Ireland is unanimous in a blind worship of their possible merits . Nowhere are snobbism and toadyism so universal as in this country . Nowhere is tufthunting so honourable , so lucrative a profession . Nowhere is the unreasoning respect for titles and riches , for themwith selves all alone his , habits so rampant and . Were anions George the whole IV . to realm return or to- that day comp , part of it which makes itself chiefly heard and seen , would bow down to him . But with all this love for rank and money there is in this country a nucleus of noble stubbornness , of titanic obstinacy , which , if roused in a good cause—and the reverence for good and hatred of evil is not only the best cause , but in itself the strongest—is irresistible . As education advances , as the last remnants of feudalism die away , so will the worship of mere rank decline , and the people will look for brains beneath a coronet , for a heart behind the ermine . They will demand then that the hereditary aristocracy shall consent to be judged either by an internal censorship , or by an external tribunal ; if this be impossible , then they will demand the abolition of that law which renders it impossible for a man , whatever be his vices or his crimes , who is born a Peer , ever to be anything else but a Peer and hereditary legislator of Great Britain .
12 The Tom Ah A Wk. [July 10, 1869,
12 THE TOM AH A WK . [ July 10 , 1869 ,
A Retentive Memory.
A RETENTIVE MEMORY .
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parentl A retentive y , it has its memory disadvantages is a very . valuable For instance possession , in an , but author , ap- , power scious when allied of p to lag invention him iarism to a is not , which , not it very is so , apt exuberant however to to others lead impossible its . imag possessor Mr ination . Tom to , into and detect an a it limited uncon woul may d - lished appear tive appear memory in to be the , the if Times , we most may in unfortunate judge answer from to victim the the letter suggestion of a which singularl Taylor that he has y he reten pub had - - great derived part from of the a novel dialogue , of Mr of . his William last dramatic Gilbert ' s the success plot — and Mary a Warner . name Mr , . beg Tom ins Tay by alluding lor , whose to the modesty notice is in as the widel Times y known as a flatter as his - ing origin one of . his He ori then ginal goes drama on . to The allude next paragrap to the report h of his as to letter the characteristicall we must give in y extenso naive ; / — it is so very straightforward and so second " I can hand only , and say that that he the has critic been of misinformed the Athenauw . Mary must be Warner speaking is not at an adaptation of Margaret Meadows . The only feature it has in common an with innocent Mr . Gilbert wpman ' s story takes ( so on far hersel as I f remember the guilt of the another latter ) j is but that Margaret in both the Meadow son is s guilty sacrifices , while hersel the f for husband a son , is Mary inno Warner cent , and for this a husband innocen ; and is situation the pivot of in interest the visitor in ' s cell play at , Brixton and gives . its If there novelty is and one effect sentence to the of
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wrote miracle dialogue every , for identical word it is of in some the the years p dialogue lay and since the of Mary I stcry read it Warner Margaret must bet within little Meadows the less last ^ than and four a I months , without any reference to Mr . Gilbert ' s story . " exp lanation feel bound in our to columns give Mr because . Tom Tay we were lor the misled full benefit into ascribing of this we to Ma thought ry Wa , r to mention the orig . in , But which it would its author be very was unfair too modest to Mr , as . grap Tom h of the lor , letter if not from to Mr our . columns Gilbert , to : — exclude the next paramonths " The ago truth , with is , Mr the . Gilbert play grew , the out author of a of conversation Margaret , Meadows some fifteen , who : another suggested as the a good subject one for of dramatic a woman ' treatment s accusation , and of who herself referred for love me to of action a ceding ( " story Are and to of these Mr his expression . the own Gilbert hands ( in of Once the of Mary suggestion a a thief Week Warner ? " ) of are I in the remember introduced the subject scene and . of ght While one the ) in police of which full the y - lead court con the - - ing this extent incidents as and collaborator situations of I the must play disclaim , and gladl the y claiming connection -which , to your Mr . critic Gilbert , hints ' s my published at , and the story Athenaum , of Margai critic 'et distinctl Meadows y alleges and my , between , play of Mary Warner . " in It the is former true that pne this which paragrap we quoted h rather . It alters now the seems case compatible as stated with Taylor possibility should have —we read will Margaret not say probability Meadows — wi that th the Mr view . Tom of having dramatizing for some it in reason co-operation been abandoned with its author , his , retentive and that this memory plan so shou me ld of the e re dialo produ ced as his e stor own y o invention f Margai' w et ithout Meadows , sus and - picion on the part gu of , Mr . Tom Taylor himself , as to any the real parent But age our of readers the drama will . be glad to hear , on Mr . Tom Taylor ' s a and uthori he ty are , that perfectl , spite y of at all one reports on the to the subject contrary . " It , " appears Mr . Gilbert that dramatize Mr . Taylor the misunders story , so tood that , Mr if the . Gilbert author ' s of determination Margaret Meadows not to has dramatized that story , or begun to do so , his labour will tici have pated been him in vain . It , for is very Mr . kind Tom of Tay Mr lor . ' Gilbert s original to geniu be contented s has anwith Mr . Tom such Tay an lor irregular has vouchsafed acknowled in gment the columns of his co of -operation the Times as . Firs We t , If would any other like to dramatic ask Mr . author Tom Tay had lor produced these two questions a piece so : production nearly resembling of his own in its orig leading inal genius idea , and without chief acknowled situation g any ing honest the obligation on the , art whether of that he dramati would have c author considered ? such conduct Secondly ; If p Mr . Tom Taylor knew that he owed to Mr . Gilbert the suggestion of the plot of Margaret Meadows—we beg ask that pardon gentlem —" Mary an whether Warner he " would why did allow he have him to the make courtesy use to of that We suggestion have no , doubt and produce Mr . Tom the Tay piece lor as can his answer own ori these ginal work ques- ? tions Press satisfactori praises mary ly to himself Warner . as Mr it . does Tom all Tay the lor ' s productions organ in the of its done contributors no harm , to most himself fulsomel by , acknowledging y . Mr . Torn Tay his lor debt would however have smallto another author . He isas it werethe Siamese , Twin mat of dramatic el , associated literature with , and some is always , anion most whether successful , it be when a brother intiauthor y or a French novel . When comp he produces , such a work of meri once t suspects as Mary a Warner dual origin ^ he . must not complain if the public at
The Last From Hanwell.
THE LAST FROM HANWELL .
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), July 10, 1869, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_10071869/page/4/
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