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many 4 hand for the noveliSt's pen.
1t trained Charles Dickens. who. at
the age Of nineteen years. did report
cr's work of such excellent quality as
t. draw from the late Earl If Derby.
then Lord Stanley. a prediction that
the STRIPPING reporter was destined for
4 great career.
Young Dickens had reported the
last part Of Lord Stanlcy's speech in
the House Of Commons against O'Con-
nell. When the proofs of the speech
We're sent to Lord stanley t hat gem
tleman returned them with the re-
mark that the first two-thirlS of it
were so badly reported as to 10 unin-
tclligiblc: but that if the gentleman
who had reported the last part Of il
so admirably would cali upon him he
would repeat his speech and have il
reported again.
Young Dickens. notebook in hand.
made his appearance at Mr.. Stanlcy'>,
and was reluctantly shown by the
servant into the library. When the
master of the house came in he cX-
pressed aStonishment with his eyes as
we'll as by his words.
Il beg PARDON" said he. "hut I had
hoped to see the gentleman who had
reported the last part of my speech.
Il am that gentleman answered
Dickens. turning red in the face.
"Oh. indeed" said Stanley. turning
to conceal smile.
Sir James Graham then came in.
and Stanley began his speech. At
first he stood still. addressing one Of
the window-curtan, as Mr.. Speaker.
Then h. walked up and down the
room, gesticulating and dccIaiming
with all the fire he had shown in the
House of Commons.
Sir James. with a newspaper report
before him. followed. and occasionally
corrected Stanley. When the proof
of the speech had been read hy ths
orator, he returned it t. the editor
with note predicting the future
success of his young reporter.
Many years afterward Charles Dick
ems. the popular novelist, was invited
to dine with Lord Derby. The guest.
We're shown into the library. and
Dickens, though he hal forgotten the
incident Of the speech. felt Il strange
sensation. as if he had been there be-
fore.
AT last something recalled the re-
porting adventure. and he reminded
his host Of it. Lord Derby was de-
lighted to recognize in the popular
novelist his boy rcnortcr-Gouth's
Companion.
Is DarwinIsm Il Failure:
Since the Darwinian theory Of the
origin Of man made its first yictori-
Gus mark, twenty years ago, We hav,
sought for the intermediate stages
which were supposed to connect man
with the apes: the prptp man. the
For anthropological science the pre-
anthropo> is even Il subject of discus
sion. At that time in Innsprurk the
prospect was. apparently. that the
course Of descent from ape to mar.
would be reconstructed all at once.
but now we cannot even prove the
descent of the separate races from
oilt IIlDUJiil. ~! tIIIS IiDiIltHL W.
are able to say that among the
peoples of antiquity no single one
was any nearer to the apes than We
are.
At this moment ! can affirm that
there S not upon earth any air
solutcly unknown race Of men. The
least known Of all are the people Of
the central mountainous district of
the Malay Peninsula. but otherwise
we know that the people Of Terra del
FucgO quite as well as the Esqui-
maux, Bashkirs, PolyncSians. and
LappS. Nay, we know more of many
Of these races than we do Of certain
European tribes: | need only men
tion the Albanians. Every living
race is still human: no single one
has yet been found that we can DIES.
ignate as simian or quaSi-simian
Even when in certain ones phenomena
appear which are characteristic of the
apcs-e. g.. the peculiar apc-like pro-
jectiOns of the skull in certain races
still we cannot say that these men
are ape-likc.-PrOf. Eirchow. before
the late Anthropological Congress in
Vienna.