'Fair Play' writes to concur with Buggins's assessment of J. Sheridan Moore's lecture on the current exhibition at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. 'Fair Play' notes that 'it is not the first time ... that Mr. S. Moore has received a not over flattering testimonial to the vast calibre, or presumed calibre, of his literary worth' and suggests that Moore's 'frantic exception' to Buggins's comments 'has certainly not elevated [him] in the public estimation, nor will he persuade the public to regard him in any other light than as a crotchetty, egotistical, shadowy "ideal" of a would-be public literary character.'