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portion Of a skull said to be that Of the
murdered man Clark.

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murdered man Clark.
French Memoirs.
The series of notable French Memoirs
which the Sturgls G. Walton Company
has been bringing out approaches COM
pletion. Three more volumes only are
to be published. The seventh and latest
volume contains the memoirs Of the Due
de Lauzun.
Thackeray's Hand.
Mrs. Story, the widow Of the late prin-
cipal of Glasgow University, notes In her
lust published "reminiscences that Thack-
cray, whom she met in her youth, had a
hand of velvety softness. I'm lady,
she writes, II have now and again OBJ
served the same popularity, but 1t is
rare; in a man l have only once besides
remarked It,"
Scuthey's Letters.
Thackerays opinion that Southey's S
private letters are worth piles of epics
and are sure to last among us as long
as kind hearts like to sympathize with
goodness and purity and love and up
right life" Is recalled by the issue in
THE Worlds Classics" Of volume OF
| selections from them. These letters have
been much neglected, and Southey In tho
| character of correspondent has been al
most forgotten.
| A Popular Novelist.
That popularity has little to do with
genius is again shown by the success OF
the English novelist, Mrs. Barclay. 1t
is stated that she will shortly be able to
say: Il have sold million OF my
books" To be exact, the sales Of her
stories already published have mounted
to over $4,000 copies. Her new novel,
Through the Postern Gate" will be
brought out next month by the Putnams.
Bluff.
One Of the most amusing anecdotes In
Mr.. j. H. Harper's book, THE House OF
Harper" has the late Mr.. Labouchere
for hero. The German officials at
frontier custom house were needlessy
dlscourteous, 1t is said. in examining the
Englishman's luggage, throwing II about
the platform:
Labby insisted that the official should re-
pack for him, with what result may pc
imagined Then, asking for the telegraph
office, the Engllshman wrote our the & lol-
lowing message: Prince Bismarck, Ser
lin ] am detained on the fronuer py the
overbearIng treatment OF a custom house
official and can not dine with YOU to-nlsht
-LaboucheTe." Profuse apologies were
soon forthcoming, his luggage was quickly
gathered together. and special train was
ordered, as he had missed the regular one;
When Labouchere was asked II he arrived
no intention OF dining with BISMARCK III
fact, ! had not the pleasure OF Ms aC-
quaintance. Il was what you Americans
call gigantic bluff.
What Napoleon Did.
NJ HanCtaux In his address the other
day TO the new immortal" OF the
French Academy, Baron Denys Cochin,
harked back, as ever Frenchmen con-
tinually do, to the great Napoleon. What
did this hero do? he asked, and an
swered his own question: He imposed
the most absolute discipline On the most
restlve nation in tho world. Do you
think that this was without the desire
the completely OF the country? NO, IL
was with the consent OF those men, az
they still wished for action, that ne gal
vanlzed the expiring revolution, made
an army Of II and hurled It on the
world"
Some New Fiction.
Among the novels announced by Little,
Brown & Co. for publication this week
are The Bandbox," by Louis Joseph
Vance; THE Mountain Girl" by Payne
Erskine, which was published serially IN
The Ladies' Home Journal and The
Big Fish" new tale of adventure by
H. B. Marriott Watson.