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Updated: May 26, 2025
For every black babe torn from its mother's breast by the iniquitous system of negro slavery, the slums of our great cities have a white child, whose future is equally dark and hopeless. My critic's first question is, "How do you justify the term 'white slave' when applied to the persons whose condition you describe?" My answer is very simple.
If I were not opposed to betting, I would lay a wager that I can tell from the book column in any of the newspapers or magazines of the land the condition of each critic's liver and spleen at the time of his writing.
Of the more important aspect of the critic's mission, his duty in trying to aid in the development of art, the luckless angler was not thinking.
This only means that a very large proportion of Burns's letters are not like the letters of ordinary men, and therefore do not satisfy the critic's idea or definition of a letter. They treat of themes that are not specially a propos of passing events, and therefore they are forced and affected. Few are likely to be imposed upon by such shallow reasoning.
"And the moral," cried the king, with vivacity, as Gellert ceased for a moment. "Here is the moral, sire:" "If what you write offends the critic's rules, It is an evil sign, no doubt; But when 'tis lauded to the skies by fools, 'Tis time, indeed, to blot it out." "That is beautiful very beautiful; you have something gallant in your person. I understand every thing you say.
"Yours till deth, Annabel." The fact that there was a word misspelt now and then did not detract in the least from the letter, so pleasing to Si. In fact, he was a little lame in orthography himself, so that he had neither the ability nor the disposition to scan Annabel's pages with a critic's eye.
"I have had a very particular conversation with Miss Hendy," he said, laying his hand confidentially on the great critic's shoulder. "An extraordinary woman!" chimed in Bristles, "the glory of the present times."
Alice stood for a while pondering her aunt's suggestion. Then, with half-forced cheerfulness of tone, she answered, "May be you're right, I'll take the hair bracelets instead. And now, what else?" "The critic's task is never for me a pleasant one, Alice. Least pleasant when it touches one I love. If you had not asked what I thought of your appearance, I would have intruded no exceptions.
But, from regard to the Critic's own credit, he would not have ventured to talk of an act of parliament not being strong enough to compel the perusal of those little pieces, if he had not known that the people of England were ignorant of the treasures contained in them: and if he had not, moreover, shared the too common propensity of human nature to exult over a supposed fall into the mire of a genius whom he had been compelled to regard with admiration, as an inmate of the celestial regions 'there sitting where he durst not soar.
The poet and the novelist may be well enough, and probably have qualities and gifts of their own which are worth the critic's attention, if he has any time to bestow on them; and it is certainly unjust to subject them to a comparison with somebody else, merely because the critic will not take the trouble to ascertain what they are.
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