ABSTRACT
Athenceum) takes up "British Freewomen," recently reviewed in these pages, and proclaims it full of" deplorable errors." The reader sifts the errors and through the sieve first falls a statemen~ of opinion which the critic pleases to treat as a statement of fact, then falls the complaint that too much is made of Sir E. Coke, too little of Bacon, for the critic forgot, or perhaps never knew, that it was the thoughtless dictum of Coke that became as the seal of diRfranchisement for women, while no work of Bacon has ever been cited against their liberties. Then come printer's errors, one, two, three and more, "deplorable errors," these of the printers, making havoc of the queer old mediooval Latin of the chroniclers. But oh, critic, what is this? "ii countesses summoned to the Council of the King," do you say? Nay,.not" ii" but" 11." That printer's error in the critic's criticism changes an eleven to a two; is that deplorable ? Judging by the standard he himself has set up, most deplorable.
