A Note for Moralists

In the ‘Atlantic’s Bookshelf’ last month, Joseph C. Lincoln’s new book received a warm encomium in which quite incidental reference was made to less creditable ‘best sellers,’ ‘such undesirable characters,’ so the reviewer called them, ‘as Harold Bell Wright.’ It did not seem to us within the bounds of possibility that the term, used in this connection, could be endowed with moral significance; but since it has, in one quarter at least, been open to suspicion, we beg the reader to discard any such imputation. We have not the honor of Mr. Wright’s acquaintance, but that his ‘character,’ in the moral sense, is good, we take, on competent authority, absolutely for granted.