[[A brief editorial notice appeared on page 260 of The Path, Vol. III, November 1888, several months prior to the article immediately following it here. Both the editorial and the article concern slanders leveled at H. P. Blavatsky and the Society in The Religio-Philosophical Journal. -- Comp.]]

BROS. BRIDGE and STEARNS of the Boston T.S., have two articles in the Religio-Philosophical Journal of Chicago in reply to those in which W. E. Coleman attacked Mme. Blavatsky. The two Boston writers argue that the life and work of H. P. Blavatsky outweigh all the alleged charges of smoking, swearing, and profanity. In this we fully agree, and as we personally know that Mr. Coleman knows nothing about his subject, although he pretends to a great deal, we are glad to have the life and work of H. P. Blavatsky, so intimately connected as they are with the Society, written about in the Spiritualistic papers. Such writers as Coleman do no good to the cause they espouse, and no harm to those they attack. But we forgive his bitterness, as we know the dreary life he leads in the government military Post in San Francisco -- although we do not know whether his diatribes are written at the Post or in a room at home after the day's work is done. Theosophists can gauge the power of his attacks when they know that he began his vile articles as long ago as 1881.