1 OCTOBER 1864, Page 24

Mr. Whitworth and Sir Emerson Tennent. From Fraser's Magazine. (James

Madden.)—A republication of the original attack on Sir Emer- son's "Story of the Guns" with his answer and the reviewer's reply, together with Sir Emerson's rejoinder, which now appears for the first time. After reading through the controversy we have come to the con- clusion that Sir Emerson's book is open to the charge of advocacy, but that it is not so gross a case as to justify the language of the reviewer, whose charges are, moreover, sometimes triviaL Neither writer seems to have the power of stating the exact result of evidence without diminu- tion or exaggeration, and neither has had the least success in modify- ing the opinions of the other. Readers interested in the gun contro- versy had better study the blue-book for themselves.