Kate Marsden.

Manawatu Herald, 30 May 1893, Page 2

Kate Marsden.

, Miss Kate Marsden, ; h^j .. thoroughly ejfppsp^. in^'t^ IMted '.. States, and if she" "o^e^+outr- her avowed intention of paying a visit, to i Chioago she may expect a warm reI ception . We- may isay . we have,xe- ;- ( cently received sey^raj communioa- ,, tions . frojcp 1 'ihejj asking Jor information regarding 'n^p. £abouchere's attention has been called to her proceedings; and/^rp^ )JS)on , her trail in Londoh.i The attehmon of the Charity Organisation Society , has also been, directed, io^. her, and the Secretary of ri the Benevolent Institution here recently received a , letter frpm . thp '7so,cie|ty , asking^Jor details of her New Zealand" caraer. Her book, ' ' On Sledge and Hoiiseback to Outcast Siberiaxi Lepers," has evoked what may be teMtd "an official contradiction of ., its'^ftte« ments. The work is scathingly reviewed in the New york, Evening Post of the 7th; April; -The tft3t paragraph of thia review ia : Sift Allows :—" Anything more absolutely devoid of literary 1 merit or; claim' to attention from the; intelligent 'j)ublic than this volume, it would ( be hard to find. The slender story is told twice, in some .cases three ' tinpies, and consists" chiefly "^ri the narrMon of such petty details of travel as would be likely, ,tp. impress, a dull person unacquairite&'with 'even the rudiments of life iq the country traversed. The interstice's are oiled up with poetry; as iifctle' 'interesting, as the ' adventures.' 'These need to be scrutanised m the light , of an article publishedin the 'afc.; Petersburg Gi'azhdanin ; '(Sf6s. -92-96) M stb