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Updated: May 16, 2025
Another sign of recent times which will repay consideration has been aptly termed "muck-raking." Mr. Roosevelt took the word from Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" to describe the irresponsible and slanderous attacks upon public officials, which were made merely for the purpose of selling the wares of penny-a-liners.
Jennie laughed as she looked round her apartment and noted its luxuriant appointments. "These are not exactly what we should call 'diggings' in London, are they?" she said to the Princess, who stood by her side, delighted at the pleasure of her friend. "We often read of poor penny-a-liners in their garrets; but I don't think any penny-a-liner ever had such a garret as this placed at his disposal."
Come now, I have, first of all, too much vanity and next, too much faith in you. You don't tell me how your play is getting on at the Odeon. Speaking of plays, I am going again to expose myself to insults of the populace and the penny-a-liners. The manager of the Cluny Theatre, to whom I took le Sexe faible, has written me an admiring letter and is disposed to put on that play in October.
Accordingly nothing but the trumpery of mere penny-a-liners is brought forward, though this sometimes assumes an appearance of originality.
'The captain is telling me how he put down the Fenians in the rising of '61, said Nina calmly. 'And did he? I say, Curtis, have you really suppressed rebellion in Ireland? 'No; nor won't, Mr. Joe Atlee, till we put down the rascally press the unprincipled penny-a-liners, that write treason to pay for their dinner. 'Poor fellows! replied Atlee.
Within a few hours the jubilant newsboys were shrieking "Horrible Suicide in Bow," and The Moon poster added, for the satisfaction of those too poor to purchase, "A Philanthropist Cuts His Throat." But the newspapers were premature. Scotland Yard refused to prejudice the case despite the penny-a-liners.
The ill-looks of the young girls surprised him much. Here and there smiled a plump rosy face enough; but the majority seemed under-sized, under-fed, utterly wanting in grace, vigour, and what the penny-a-liners call 'rude health. He remarked it to Tregarva. The keeper smiled mournfully. 'You see those little creatures dragging home babies in arms nearly as big as themselves, sir.
Next they talked of what was in the paper. Homais by this hour knew it almost by heart, and he repeated it from end to end, with the reflections of the penny-a-liners, and all the stories of individual catastrophes that had occurred in France or abroad. But the subject becoming exhausted, he was not slow in throwing out some remarks on the dishes before him.
Sweet competition! Heavenly maid! Now-a-days hymned alike by penny-a-liners and philosophers as the ground of all society the only real preserver of the earth! Why not of Heaven, too? Perhaps there is competition among the angels, and Gabriel and Raphael have won their rank by doing the maximum of worship on the minimum of grace? We shall know some day.
Fancy her calling all authors "penny-a-liners!" "So, all unsuccessful men say!" she replied curtly. "But," she went on, putting aside all my literary prospects as beneath her notice, and returning to the main point at issue, "is that all you have got to depend upon for your anticipated wife and establishment?" She smiled sweetly, playing with me as a cat would with a mouse.
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