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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3710, 15 November 1880, Page 2

I know that it is a ?ery inviduous thing to offer advice to anyone, and yet it becomes one's duty . sometimes, especially in eases where the public axe concerned. Juntas offered some very unpalatable advice to the king, bat I take, as becomes my humble station, no higher flight than that of offering a few season* able words to no greater personage than Captain J. W. Barry. Or perhaps I had better pat it, that if I had the right to offer advice to the same Captain, I woajd do so on the following terms :—Captain Barry, having lately observed your complaint that you have bean pelted with , rotten eggs, and otherwise badly received by audiences which yon wished to address I thick I can show you a method by which yoa can avoid such positions in future. First of all, let me tail you that your misfortune at the preseat time lies in the fact that you have been " found out." I suspect yon have never read Arthur Helps, for you are evidently not a reading man; but if you have, yon may have come across a wise passage which says—"Bemember always that what it. real and substantial ultimately makes its way in the world." Now, there is nothing real or substantial in you. You are a sort of innocent sham—a kind of hard***, less imposter; and even the simpletons of this world soon get to see it You! have taken to yourself the title of " Captain;" drop it, and be plain W. J. Berry. You have written a book which is not worth any one's while to read: write no more. You have delivered lectures which can benefit no one to hear; deliver no more. You have wasted a lot of energy in puffiing aad bringing yourself into nonce; let it for the futon oe turned into a more legitimate channel. Recognise no more Tichborne's or public impostors of any.kind; have no more thrilling adventures; aad try if you can let the public forget you for a little while. In the. meantime ctiok into honest work, and while thus engaged, devote you spare, energies towards self culture and improvement. For yoa are not without: the germs of ability Captain, let me tell you that for your comfort. Only btniih from your mind for ever the idea that yon can build up the superstructuret of a reputation without first providing the foundation. By attending to this advioe I should not be surprised to see yon get in a small way to be a useful pibtic man. •"Echo.

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