[25] By way of digression I cannot refrain from instancing the absurd practice obtaining in some newspapers of printing the title Mrs., when applied to a woman not legally married, in inverted commas, in spite of the dictum of English law which says that any one can call themselves by any description they please. [26] _New York Tribune_, 10th August 1853. [27] _Era_, 6th January 1856. [28] _Morning Herald_, 7th May, 1856. [29] De Mirecourt. [30] Phelps, "Players of a Century."