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INSPIRATION is a very way- ward friend and does not treat all writers alike, as we know. When Dickens was writing “Dombey and Son." in Lausanne. he wrote com- plaining that he was handicapped by the absence o! the hustle and bustle oi London's street. life. ‘Fhey were meat and drink to his brain. A cou- ple oi weeks in country quiet. then a day in London was necessary to him as a mental stimulant. His long night dvalks in town helped him t0

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THACKERACY, on the other hand. could write anywhere and any time. Could break oﬂ in the middle of a piece of work at home; go out and about: pick up his pen at the club in the afternoon, and so on. But then he did not work himself into such a iret and fume over what his characters said and did.

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Do not wait for stiﬁness and lameness to set in—- rub in Absorbine, Jr.. im- mediately. It will quickly relieve the pain and ache and reduce the inﬂamma- tion. Being a powerful anti- septic and gerrnicide as well '

an a cooling. pwthius liﬂi- miwmonna worked in soli- ment, Absorbine. Jr-, 11ml! tiide and silence. As tor Carlyle! qulckll’ and shortma the His writing room was padded!

period of recovery. Keepdt handy at all times for cuts, wounds, bruises, sprains, burns and aches. It is not greasy and docs not stain. Atyourdiuggists-ﬂlﬁ)" bottle. Hospital size,2.50.”

Noise drove him t0 FREE- CQIITMYS writing room in his Kent home look- ed out on trim grass. box hedges and splendid. trees. Yet when a. friend

there, Conrad said he was tired of the view. It was tame after the stormy seas he had sailed. O O O

H. G. WELLS writes a new book while most people are reading his last. He has a table by his bedside. rind if the‘ spirit moves him will E9" up in the middle of the night, make himself a cup of coffee, write atchap- ter or so, and then go back to sleet!

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THOMAS HARDY aliivays took oﬂ‘ his booLs before starting to com- pose, poems or prose. Zola used to l darken his apartment: at midday and ivrlte in artiﬁcial light,

“I could look at. these mountains a. hundred years," said O. Henry to his wife in Asheville, “and never get - n idea; but Just one block down- Eown, and I catch a. sentence-see something in a face-and I‘\'e got my story." '

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AND that reminds me oi’ a story about Maurice Macterlinck and his wife. Working late one evening he found himself at a loss tor just the right “word he wanted and so con- ‘ sultcd his wife. They discussed the matter ‘(or some time and then went iia bed leaving it unsettled. During the night the poet roused his sleep- ing- wife. .3 '

“Get up, dear!" heexclaimed. "I've Just thought of a really good word.“ “Get up yourselflTshe, replied, in- dignantlynffve just thought o! a

_ *2 l very bad one)‘. . _ in.» c o 0' AN amusing correspondence l)‘:-

ntween James Ford Rhodes, the Ame- lrican ‘Historian, and Dr. Henry S.

_ -_ m w“ Prltchett-mentioncd in M. A. De Wolfe Rowe's biography of Rhodes ' .- -reveals that in the‘ original edition

l of gist Harto‘s,;‘!amous"poem on the “Iietathcn Chincle,“ Ah Sin wds made to coriccal‘ in his flooring sleeves "twenty-four packs" of playing . cards! As a matter of “historical r ' We are ' taking live accuracy" the Chlnaman had cone

. . ‘ ccaled in iris-sleeves not twenty-four hogs daily! excepting, packs‘ but twenty-tour jacks. Merely

Saturday, paying high. a humus emf» est market prices.

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0 e ~ , DURING a visit to Oxford, Rhodes was shown through the Unt-

eef FFQQQY lvcrsity Press where the Bible, Pray-

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told him how he envied him writing f

er Book and the great Dictionary THE strange. revelatory power are prlntnd. He was much interest- exhibited in many o! Bargentts port- ed in the iunous India paper usedaait plantings did not always please (or all three books and inquired of I the sitters. In i888 Sargent! port- the Superintendent: rait of Henry Irving, then ﬁfty

"Is the India paper all rag?" years old-Irving. not the portrait-

"N01 said the Superintendent. ; was displayed at the Royal Academy. “and I am not going to tell you what‘ It was . described as wonderfully

it is made of." clever, albeit somewhat painlul. ow- ° ' ' ing to an expression that was sug- THEN he told Mr. Rhodes a gestive but indennable.

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"When Gladstone was Prime Minw IRVING himself hated it. Later ister he made us a visit. and in slwW- ; all trace of it was lost. Years after- lus him about he asked. ‘What is ward, while dining with Squire Ban- ihe India D3119!‘ m!“ 05?’ “Mlicroft, noted act/or, (who prints thei Gladstone‘. was my reply. ‘you awistury in his memo‘ s "Empty? Prime Minister and the most DOWN-I Chairs”), Irving told how he hadl Iul mania the United Kingdom. but, hidden it in i. garret and finally‘

Gladstone ascertained that it has al e ' ~ secret he worked hard afterwards to ANQTHER, story mm by 3m.‘ discover it but he never found out", croft and vouched tor by Edwin’ ' ' ' ‘Abbey and Alma ‘Padema, both THE hurdy-surdywne is sererv, famous contemporaries o1 Sargents. ailing me as I write, bless it-has its‘ 15 this; ' place in literature. But for it. eel A young and beautiful American should never have had Calverleys‘ heiress’ whose condition had 1mg "X1851 lheen an insoluble problem to her Grinder. who serenly grindcst lphyslcian. was sent on a European M my 11001‘ m‘? Hundred“! Psalm’ trip for her health and while in Lon- Till thou ultimately ﬁndest idon, sat u, gal-germ Pence in thy unwashen palm. o u. Bang goes a nickel. - ' i e s ~ i THE llicture was greatly admired AT a literary club dinner one‘, and was the central object of inter- night, Stephen McKenna, the novelq est at a“ “at hmm" l“ NW” Y°rk “trwho w“ m me chair_s'i7oke of given in honor oi’ her return. The a. critic who had said in cold print l physician‘ “'h° W" Prewm» ﬁlled B! that there were no modern novelists. u‘ earnestly "d dellﬂrled 1101101‘ Bald Anthony Hope Hawkins when stricken. Later he warned the girl's he rose. ‘ father that it revealed unmistakable "1: that be s0, sir, then what am I ‘mllfﬂllmi "f "IS-“ilty- 5mm after- dolng proposlng you, heauhou ward the subject died in a mndhouse.

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WHILE addressing a public meet- BARR”; relates that on one or "is the lets Bishop Boyd-Carpenter, his last visits to Thomas liﬂfdv ill -—n0ted asva wlt-vras lnterrupiodiMaX Gum Dorthaglpr‘ Hard‘, SHOW by a skeptic, who asked him if holed him a leilolufron‘ a maio com iienlly believed that the whale Swill-l mm whim had pmwnlvd him “m; a lowed Jonah. He replied the? if he iu-ondca,¢in: SN“ u m“, [my "var? reached heaven he would try to ﬁnd delight“; m mm. from mm ‘tint n‘ out‘ l ‘iZRVe plvzisiire. but that they were’ “Ah!" said the questioner, "buti mymr damped to learn from another “pm” Jonah l‘ mt mere!" isource that it was not he who listen- F Instanly came the reply: ‘ma, but his dog‘ i "'I‘hen you will have to as}: him‘ t o s Wlmelﬂ" AFTER ltIoliercLs death many

» lpoetasters busicd themselves in writ- IT. WAS the eminent Archdeacon mg epitaph. for mm 0,“, of them

gtlﬁzeerfzifslatexglro! bgggiqved in m“ showed Prince, Conti what he had "what!" asked a. iriciid ‘do vou‘f§,’§,"°§f§" Vmtfr. reading it mm think ‘it. ppssible that 1 may meet‘ ($11,152,? '1 ,0 m . i my favorite terrier in heaven” i - l‘ ' 51 u prefer ‘n1 ‘way’ h . P“ n“ - oodjlf Molicre had shown me your epi-i

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