The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-28
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
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The International Geography" Seventy
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Of "A Guide to the Trees"
editor of the "Emporia (Kan.) Gazet e.
is disguised. This is what he has TO say
about i recent little joke of .lis:
What stupid people there must be in the East!
Three months ago seeing in the announcement OF
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library David Harum" listed under II. kplings
works the Gazette" printed this paragraph:
Culture Is rapidly pushing westward. The Ca
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by that brilliant young author, X. hipling."
Western readers know this intended for pleas
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il, so he took the letter tn the Chicago Post"
10 was printed. aud now letters aud teleg.
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The HERALD was referred to Lydia \. Pinkham
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