Note 7 — BIOGRAPHY GONE MAD.

We are fully prepared to find Mr Bennett attributing our unfavourable remarks to a great “conspiracy” among the “aristocratic cliques” of England against American institutions in general, and the New York Herald in particular. This is an old trick, but the American public is too sensible any longer to be taken in by such nonsense. Mr Bennett’s pretensions to represent the general sentiments of the United States, have nowhere been more indignantly repudiated than in New York. If we imagined that any American whose opinion is worth considering, would interpret our criticism as implying any unkindly feeling to his country, these pages should never have seen the light. The objects of our criticism are individual men.