It formed the general talk
for many days, was attributed to Lord Salisbury, was supposed to
have been inspired by Prince Gortschakoff. The name standing
against it in Messrs. Murray's books, as they kindly inform me, is
that of a writer still alive, and better known now than then, but
they never heard that Kinglake had a hand in it; the editor would
seem to have kept his secret even from the publishers. Kinglake
sent the article in proof to the lady; hoped that the facts he had
imparted and the interpolations he had inserted would please her;
he could have made the attack on Russia more pointed had he written
it; she would think the leniency shows a fault on the right side;
he did not know the writer of this latter part. He begged her to
acquaint her friends in Moscow what an important and majestic organ
is "The Quarterly," how weighty therefore its laudation of herself.
She recalls his bringing her soon afterwards an article on her,
written, he said, in an adoring tone by Laveleye in the "Revue des
Deux Mondes," and directing her to a paper in "Fraser," by Miss
Pauline Irby, a passionate lover of the "Slav ragamuffins," and a
worshipper of Madame Novikoff.
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