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Grant The latter Is rich in characteristic anec-
dotes Of the great captain. One-of night alarm

Grant Tho latter Is rich in characteristic anec-
dotes OF the great captain One-of night alarm
shows a significant contrast:
When Hancocks headquarters were reacheo '"e
party remained with him for some time. await'ns
the arrival Of the head Of Warrens troops Han
cocks wound received at Gettysburg had NOT
thoroughly healed. and he suffered such neon
venience from II when In the saddle that ne hau
applied for permission TO ride In spring am
buance while the march and when MS troops
not In action He was reclining upon one oi
the seats OF the ambulance conversng with Ten
eral Grant. who had dismounted and was sit'ihs
on the ground with his back against tree
whiting a stick when the sound of firing broke
forth directly in front Hancock sprang up. seized
his sword, which lying near him. buckied
II around his waist and cried: MY morse! III!
horse!' The intensely dramatic. ana re-
called wildly to the bystanders the cry OF Richard
III on the field Of Bosworth. Grant listened a
moment without changing his position or ceasing
his whiting. and then remarked: They are not
fighting; the firing is all one side IL takes two
sides to start fight" In few minutes the firing
died away and II found that the enemy was
not advancing. The incident fairly illustrates
the contrast In the temperaments Of these two dis
tinguished soldiers.
Ambitious young gentlemen who think that the
Of a trhe Of the Kipling manner will insure In
their writings the Kipling effects make very
great mistake. The Mulvancy "ut' doesn't create
a Mulvaney by any means. and references to pink
boys will not summon up the charm of the immor-
tai Anglo-Indian II is to he feared that certain
incautious comparisons have done harm TO Mr..
Fernald who is a clever young writer but GER
tainiy not Kipllng
The volume I'm which Mr. William Watson is
bringing out n lot 81 poems on the Armenian
atrocities is TO be called 1.-THE Year Of Shame" The
Bishop of Hereford writes introduction. re-
production Of Wattss Recording Angel" will serve
as frontispiece.
1.-THE Constable of Zenda" Is the title OF the story
which Anthony Hope is finishing. 1t is the sequel
of 1.-The Prisoner Of Zenda.' and IT contains some
OF the most interesting characters OF the carrier
story II Is to be begun in ''McClure's Magazine
within few months.
A large number of drawings from the late George
du Mauriers pencil said to he in the possession
of Punch and they will be brought out at inter-
walls probably on special occasions
Mr.. Richard Harding Davis's description of the
Cars coronation is to lead the list Of papers in the
February Harper" 1t has been illustrated by the
clever British artist, Il. Cation Woodvile.
Pierre Lofts Forthcoming novel Is mentioned as
something remarkably good-much better than any
thing he has done heretofore. and quite without the
personal element.
1t is said that a nephew of Charles Dickens is an
engineer on the Illinois Central Railroad. and is lv-
ing in La Sale Ill. His father was Augustus ~
Dickens a Younger brother Of the novelist, VINO
came TO this country about 1850 and became an
employee of the railroad. lie lived in chicago LOT
many years.