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A lively encounter followed : — 



The G.O.M. is not murdered (lie writes on November 

 20), only " fillipped with a three-man beetle," as the fat 

 knight has it. 



This refers to the forthcoming article in the 

 December Nineteenth Century, "The Keepers of the 

 Herd of Swine," which was followed in March 1891 

 by " Mr. Gladstone's Controversial Methods " (see 

 Coll. Essays, v, 366 sqjj^.), the rejoinder to Mr. Glad- 

 stone's reply in February. 



The scope of this controversy was enlarged by the 

 intervention in the January Nineteenth Century of the 

 Duke of Argyll, to whom he devoted the concluding 

 paragraphs of his March article. But it was scarcely 

 well under way when another, accompanied by much 

 greater effusion of ink and passion, sprang up in the 

 columns of the Times. His share in it, published in 

 1891 as a pamphlet under the title of " Social Diseases 

 and Worse Remedies," is to be found in Coll. Essays, 

 ix. 237. 



I have a new row on hand in re Salvation Army ! (he 



writes on December 2). It's all Mrs. 's fault ; she 



offered the money. 



In fact, a lady who was preparing to subscribe 

 £1000 to "General" Booth's "Darkest England" 

 scheme, begged Huxley first to give her his opinion 

 of the scheme and the likelihood of its being properly 

 carried out. A careful examination of " Darkest 



