"ANDREW ABERFELDIE."

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11629, 3 November 1887, Page 3

"ANDREW ABERFELDIE."

H Sib,— l have no intention of entering Hipon a campaign o| mere words with so Haoile a writißr If ;3&iiglish and so verbal H . wit as "AndJ^^r^berfeldie," neither Khali I take advantage of his pertuberaBion nor ppjhe the moral— conscience H aakes oow»rds;.of us -all. "Andrew" H earns to think that no person but himH alf can see through a f'standike," and B hat the summa summturum of internal H fif§ nee » which points to his not being HmR 'ohcaan of the oleaa potato type H^Bimply confined to^hiß orthographyH Without going into a tdiscussive dialectic H n&lysis or writing , out yernacularistio H etails, I. have to state 'that the internal H vidence includes etymology, syntax, H *id prosody. : Mr •'** Aberfeldia " may H Veil be agitated, for as Buskin or H Slackie would say his etchings are H-ittle short of , travesty and impereanaH'ion. The cprnposition is essentially H tlnglish with' a lattico of Scotch ; while H eiterations indicate a meagre supply of H he dialectic. Taken as, a whole the B , reductions are^^English-Mossßicsr:'' an' B iteresting example of the;inflated style B lffering frqm^ql^pse." That^'Andie" fl J the clean potato I do not doubt, but, B. \ the face of- his recent variegated and B carious London-Scottish productions, B still hold him to be ai alien, and not a Be loiohman of the, clean potato type. — I Bn *» *°'» •' : - ; '^ O]aTH: Briton