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The Gossip Of A Jotjrnalist.* As A Writer Of Light

newspaper gossip, the late Mortimer Collins was in some respects eminently successful. His egotism, his cheerfulness, his appreciation of fine literature, his familiar style,......

Mr. Waddington's Selection Of Sonnets Of To-day.* An...

is currently reported to have observed that it was all very well to say, "Scorn not the sonnet," but that the public did scorn it, or at any rate would not buy it. Probably the......