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Show IB Tom Lawson in the estimation ot BJ readers of Evcrybodys Magazine is BJ .1 shattered idol. In his effort to pro- Bl tcct (?) the common people from the BJ insididos encroachment that wealth BJ and combination might make upon BJ them, he did the very things his roas- BJ ters demand him to do and for which BJ lie was well paid. Bfl He has no more honesty that he Bfl needs. His sole ambition and aim is Bfl devoted to' acquiring the almighty Bfl dollar, nothing more, nothing less BJ His perfidy is much greater than that BJ of those whom he criticises. When BH his life's work is done and his biog- BH raphy, written, if it is written at all, BH without malice or thought of vindic- BJ tivencss it may be said of him, that BJ for cxhaltcd perfidy and accomplished BJ mendacity against the poor Tow Law- BJ son is supreme. BH Speaking of M'r. Lawson, Collier's BH Weekly had tit following cutting BJ satire on the mountebank: BJ "Mr. Lawson offers $5,000 for the BH 'best' review of 'Friday, the Thir-BH Thir-BH tccnth.' Wic need that money. Mr. BJ Lawson's novel marks the first time BJ in history that literature has ever fo-BJ fo-BJ cased into something perfect and com-BJ com-BJ plctc. To the chaste selection of the BJ. Greeks this work unites the profusion BJ and vitality of the great Elizabethans. BJ To the delicacy of Dante it adds the Bl humor of Molierc. In touches of ex BJ tcrnal nature it surpasses Words-BJ Words-BJ worth. In culture and wisdom one is Bl reminded irresistibly of Goethe. The fl - style sings like a verse of Schiller BJ and for the characters they have the Bfl minute verisimilitude of Balzac cornel corn-el bined with the generalizing touch and fl sweeping truth of the aftist who H created Falstaff. WHth any mere nov-M nov-M cl it could never be compared. Roll H 'Don Quixote,' 'Wilhelm Mcister,' H 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Scarlet Lets' Let-s' ter,' 'Tom Jones,' and 'Vanity Fair' H together into one, and you would but H faintly suggest the merit of the im-H im-H mortal 'Friday.' It will be read when I 'Hamlet' is forgotten. In this flash H the human soul is supernal, grand, H and fre. The struggling biped reach H' es higher than the. angels. The Till tanic and the Olympian unite and fuse, and Genius becomes a final fact. Check should be made payable to the literary editor and addressed simply Collar's, New York." |