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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett has just accepted £3750 for a new-story. Handsome as this sum is, it is not, as has been stated, the largest sum ever paid to a woman for a single work.
Mr Gladstone is reported to have said that he has two great objects in life: one, to settle the Irish question; the other « to convince my countrymen of the substantial identity between the theology of Homerand that of the Old Testament. » It would be well if the Grand Old Man were to devote his energies exclusively to the latter object. To reconcile Moses and Homer would be nearly as difficult as to reconcile the Parnell faction with British sovereignty. Most men would consider both objects equally unattainable.