. Thackerayana;. Sensitive to a point men generally abstain from. He did not conceal his feelingwhen an unjust attack was levelled at him in an influential was not one of those remonstrators who never see anythingin the papers, but have their attention called to them byfriends. If he had seen, he frankly avowed that he had seenthe attack, and did not scruple to reply if he had an opportunity,and the influence of the journal or reviewer made it worth the Times ; he had had very early a bout of this kind. Whenthe little account of the funeral of Napoleon in 1840 was publish
. Thackerayana;. Sensitive to a point men generally abstain from. He did not conceal his feelingwhen an unjust attack was levelled at him in an influential was not one of those remonstrators who never see anythingin the papers, but have their attention called to them byfriends. If he had seen, he frankly avowed that he had seenthe attack, and did not scruple to reply if he had an opportunity,and the influence of the journal or reviewer made it worth the Times ; he had had very early a bout of this kind. Whenthe little account of the funeral of Napoleon in 1840 was published,the Times, as he said, rated him, and talked in ? its own greatroaring way about the flippancy and conceit of Titmarsh, to whichhe had replied by a sharp paragraph or two. In 1850 a veryelaborate attack in the chief journal roused his satirical humour THE TIMES ON CHRISTMAS BOOKS. [63. A Rhinelander more completely. The article which contained the offence wason the subject of his Christmas Book, entitled The Kickleburyson the Rhine, published in , upon which a criticism ap-peared in that journal, beginningwith the following passage : — It has been customary, of lateyears, for the purveyors of amusingliterature — the popular authors ofthe day—to put forth certain opuscles,denominated Christmas Books,with the ostensible intention of swell-ing the tide of exhilaration, or otherexpansive emotions, incident uponthe exodus of the old and the in-auguration of the new year. Wehave said that their ostensible inten-tion was such, because there is ano-ther motive for these productions,locked up (as the popular authordeems) in his own breast, but which betrays itself, in the qualityof the work, as his principal incentive. Oh ! that any museshould be set upon a high stool to cast up accounts and balancea ledger ! Yet so it is ; and the popular author finds it con-v
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