A short time ago a writer of one of those tedious articles in the ‘Saturday Review,’ which aim at being essays tinged with philosophy, said, when speaking of the tendency which now exists to “ whitewash” the great actors of the past, that it only remained that some one should take Judas Iscariot in hind with that aim. Of course a writer in the ‘Saturday Review’ could not be expected to know what had long since been done by no less a person than De Quincey! Google Scholar

If anything could add force to these remarks, it is the result of the trial of Rather Lack, which has taken place since they were in type. The jury, before the termination of the evidence, expressed their opinion that she was insane; and in this opinion Mr. Justice Shee entirely concurred.Google Scholar