There will be a wide public for the news that Mrs. Florence Barclay, author of ''The Rpsafy," has another story nearing publication with Putnam. It is a love story, with a musical interest, and a happy homecoming at Christmas-time. Does anyone remember, these times, Tennyson's sonnet on Montenegro? They rose to where their sovran eaglo sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage, armed by day and night Against tho Turk ; whose inroad nowhere scales Their headlong passes, but his footstep I ails, And red with blood the Crescent reels from tight Before their dauntless hundreds, in nrono ■ flight By thousands down the crags and through ths vales. Tennyson, we are told, alwaye put this first among his sonnets, and he called on Gladstone in order to gain approval of the lines— "of which." he afterwards Wrote to Gladstone, "you wero ihe inspiref," Herbert Spencer objected, not only to pubHc libraries, but tp the clieapnejsa of books. He was once asked to give evidehce before a Copyright Commission. [ and one of the Commissioners declared that, if there were no copyrights books would be cheaper and sell in larger fjuantttieH. "No doubt," B iiid the , philosopher, "that m#ht, be tho case with some books, ns with a great, many otlipr articles; but liowevrr much voii lowered tho piico of castor oil, you World not largely increase the number of purchasers, and most ppople would much rather lake castor oil every day than read one of my books." INTEREST AWAKENED. Interest awakened everywhere in ihe marvellous healing of Cuts, Burns, &nd Wounds with Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment. Is 6d and 35.->-Advt.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 17
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