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The WIG JOURNALS AND Mr. BANCROFT. THE
wing partizan prints have again opened their bat
teries on Mr. Bancroft, the historian. They got
rather the worst OF il in the attempt to make him
out guilty If giving partzan coloring to his ae-
count Of the Rhode Island charter; and now they
accuse hum Of the wholesale plagiarism of rare
Ms. which he obtained from Mr.. Everett, the
American Minister at the Court Of st. James, and
OF which 1t is now alleged duplicate copy was
lately offered for sale. Mr.. Bancroft, it is said,
had Incorporated the MS. In forthcoming volume
Of his history; and finding that he could not pro-
cure the duplicate for love or money, he melted
down the stereotype plates in order to prevent a
discovery The whole story is as apocryphal as
the stories Of the party journals generally are, and
altogether has a Roorbackish" flavor.


The Courier and Enquirer re echoes the hue and
cry against MIR. Bancroft and refers to striking
coincidence between passage in his " History
euogistic Of the Puritans, and one which occurs
in Macauleys splendid paper on "Milta" in the
Edinburgh Rerie,c. We first pointed this out a
twelvemonlh ago. II is true, the resemblance il
striking, but it Is matter Of trifing importance
Nothing is more common than for the same ideas
to occur to different minds, and be expressed by
them in almost the same language. This instance
only affords another example, the poet remarked
who was accused of pilfsring from Shakespeare, ol
show very closely the st ntiments of two great men
may be aed,'