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loth to drag the British Museum into the indictment by 

 including one of its recognised officials. I laid the matter 

 before the Trustees, who courteously referred me to 

 Mr. Winter Jones, the Chief Librarian. 



Readers who will refer to Appendix A will see that Mr. 

 Jones admitted the libellous nature of the pamphlet, 

 admitted its irregular introduction, and himself com- 

 mitted the further irregularity of keeping it from any 

 reader who might desire to see it, but, as soon as the need 

 for temporising was over, deliberately washed his hands 

 of the whole matter, and refused even the justice of an in- 

 quiry. This incident it was that awakened suspicions in me 

 of the incompetence and jobbery which must characterise 

 the management of the literary department of the Museum, 

 whose Chief would thus openly protect a slanderer and 

 perjurer. Still, for a foreigner to lift up his voice alone 

 would have been in questionable taste, and very difficult. 

 I know something, unfortunately, about lawyers' bills and 

 lawyers' " six-and-eights" ! But of late there have been 

 Englishmen, who have found it impossible to hold their 

 tongues concerning the abuse to be found rife in this 

 which should be the proudest of their institutions, and the 

 next few pages will show what they have said; how the 

 worst of their charges falls short of the truth ; what is 

 the real hidden canker at the core of all, and how its 

 removal might benefit the nation at large. 



There is hardly a newspaper in England which has not 

 within the past few weeks had occasion to comment on the 

 death of the able and hardworking Mr. Warren, killed by 

 the bad air of the den in which he worked; but few of them 

 have ventured to speak of the coarse and cruel treatment 

 which only too faithfully followed the efficient precedent 

 set in the case of the famous Oriental student Mr. Deutsch, 

 who was also slowly murdered by the studied malice, and the 



