NOTES.
The late "0. Henry," greatest of American short-story writers, was, as nvght have been expected, a man of swiftly made and virulent ..prejudices. In one of his letters, quoted in last month'B •'Bookman." he says: "J want to say that Pittsburg iB the lowdowndest bole in the surface of the earth. The peop'e here are the moat ignorant, ill-bred, contemptible, boorish degraded, insulting, sordid, vile, foulmouthed, indecent, profane, dnxnkendirtyj mean, depraved curs that I ever imagined could exist. I shall linger here no longer than necessary." Professor, Jacks, the editor of the "Hibbert Journal," has been offered hut has declined the Chair of Christian Ethics- at Harvard. He has recentlv received the L.L.D. degree from Glasgow University. s" _"The Story of my Life," by Evelyn is to be rmbK«shed bv'Long, London. In her book Mrs Thaw unbosoms herself to the world, and pives to the public her foil life history. Whatever other weaknessesiJlJlrs Thaw may have. - bashfulness was never one of them.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 15162, 4 October 1913, Page 3
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