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 she acquired by proxy. Moreover something so fine and sweet Is devsl l oped in her nature that when Anne re. Il turns, Rhea is ready to confess to ev i erybody that 1t was Anne, Anne. An. ne, that was clever, and that I was l stupid and lazy. That until last De- cember l was merely a fraud, a snare a gold brick. and a lelIsion. But now am standing on my own feet and Anne Is all solid on hers; and. oh, dc feel so relieved and so astonishingly | honest"
 How did everybody take it?" asked her mother
 Well, to tell the humIliating truth; confessed Rhea. most of them said they'd always suspected it."
 So. girls. if any of you are living on l a borrowed reputation, get on your own feet quickly. for you see you can't | fool all the people all the time. The next story has to do with ''pa- pering bee" undertaken by the girls, and how they are extricated from their trouble by a gool natured landlord, who happens in to see about some loose bricks in the chimney. The girls are cross, and inclined to be doubtful of MT. Blake's .welI-meant offer of assist ance.
 I've heard two things" said Eliza
 
 as easy as 1t looks; and the other is that disobliging landlords sometimes have redeeming qualities"
 Still another story shows how. Caro- line learned to cook She, too, had Sustained somewhat of borrowed rep utation in regard to candy making ability but there comes a day when the kitchen is turned over to her and thereis no obliging maid to help. Just how she nn3naPas makes lauPhahIa tale. and one that points its own nor al
 There are other tales, all of them good all of them to be read for the fun that is in them. and the lesson to be learned from them.
 The stories appeared originally in The Youths Companion. Forward and The Churchman. but they are well, worth the second reading. .t
 Life of Sir Walter Scott, by Andrew Lang.-Scott is of all authors probably ! the most read at the South There is no revival of Scott with us. He is al- ways with us. Every old Southern H. brary has its set of leather bound Wa verleys. Every new library8makes it's start with full set of Scott Mark Twain, who, with his reputation IS a wit must poke fun if he cannot create humor. declares that Scott put the Southerner back a century in his de- velopmert. He accuses the Southern CT of striving to re-live Scott's ancient chivalrous ideals into our everyday life names his eloquence bombast, and strives with the goad of wit to make Scott and us cut quaint capers. New ertheless Scott lives and holds his title of Great Wizard os the Land of Ro- nance. and we living up to high ideals keep free of much of the filth and dull ing weight of commercialfsm that makes so much of American character and effort and creative output with the mark of the dollar.
 In his new biography of Sir Walter Scott in the Literary Lives just pub lisfed Andrew Lang has this to say of Scotts reverence of women: AS Moliere never had the heart to draw a jealous woman, among all his pictures of men who knew, like himself. the torments of jealousy, so Scott never had the heart to draw a young beautiful woman who Is wicked. This ancient familiar source of poig- uant interest he passes by, out of hts great chivalry There was nothing to prevent him from writing a romance on the passionate. wretched tale of the once beautiful Ulrica. in Ivanhoe, fair traltrcss driven on the winds of revenge, treachery, parricide and in- cest. Here was a theme for a 'realis- tic novel of England after the Con- quest. but Scott sketches 1t lightly. as a Thyestean horl or in the background.