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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8681, 14 March 1914, Page 11

The “Saturday BevieV' draws attention to the modern dislike of the fat man. “Vidth and visdom go together,” said Tony Weller, ’ and Dickens was always fond of fat men. Nowadays, Mr Taft delights America by reducing his weight, and the Kaiser cuts down trees to preserve his waist. The Kaiser is so annoyed over the proposal that General Mahmud Maktar, the Turkish ambassador in Berlin, shonld retire that it is now probable that he will remain in Berlin after all. The Kaiser has expressed his displeasure bv intimating to the Porte that the German capital is not a caravansary (kein Ahsleigsquartier), and that he personally dislikes having diplomatists at bis court who are mere birds of passage. The amazing fecundity of some few popular novelists is accounted for by "ghosts.” Writers of fiction which has no claim to style or individuality, hut which none the less sells like hot cakes, are so sought after by certain publishers that some of them, in order to meet the demand, are driven to employ wha» are called “ghosts," or “hacks ” to help them to turn out their work. The way some of these “literary assistants' imitate tlto alleged authors’ mod© of expression ia remarkable.