A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young - Tragedian, With Extracts From His Son's Journal #261084

Few persons of matter-of-fact temperament know how difficult it is for the imaginative, how ever truthful in intention, to adhere rigidly to bald literality of narration. Any impartial and dispassionate observer, who has ever seen the experiment of Russian scandal, and witnessed the ludicrous discrepancies of statement which occur between twelve people of unimpeachable veracity, who could have no possible induce ment to exaggerate, will admit that there is nothing so little to be relied on as verbal accuracy in the case of a tale which has passed through many mouths. I fancy I can illustrate, if I cannot explain, these mysterious results by analogy.