"This," he said, "is a review of the 'Daughters of Isenberg, a Bavarian Romance,' by Mr.Gifford, to whom the authoress (Alicia T.Palmer) had the temerity to send three L1 notes!" Gifford, instead of sending back the money with indignation, as he at first proposed, reviewed the romance, and assumed that the authoress had sent him the money for charitable purposes.
_Mr.Gifford to Miss A.T.

Palmer_.
"Our avocations leave us but little leisure for extra-official employment; and in the present case she has inadvertently added to our difficulties by forbearing to specify the precise objects of her bounty.
We hesitated for some time between the Foundling and Lying-in Hospitals: in finally determining for the latter, we humbly trust that we have not disappointed her expectations, nor misapplied her charity.

Our publisher will transmit the proper receipt to her address." One of the principal objections of Mr.Murray to the manner in which Mr.Gifford edited the _Quarterly_ was the war which he waged with the _Edinburgh_.

This, he held, was not the way in which a respectable periodical should be conducted.

It had a line of its own to pursue, without attacking its neighbours.