ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the response of The Round Table, Issue No. 4 of 1866, to Mr. Richard Grant White's article which was published in The Galaxy. Mr. White assumes that the American people have not brains enough to understand or care about weekly reviewing of the first-rate sort, and that writers are in no case well paid enough to furnish the writing for them, even were there any market for it. The The Round Table joins issue with Mr. White on both counts of his indictment. According to the magazine, Americans have quite enough head and quite enough culture to appreciate scholarly and brilliant writing when it is fairly set before them; and The Round Table has paid quite enough money in the last two years for just such writing to command much more respectful consideration from educated and impartial judges than Mr. White seems to accord it.
