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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... Braddon.--Mrs. Maxwell, who is best known as Miss Braddon.is plump of build, sandy of hair, and ruddy of complexion. "She writes," says the N. Y. Tribune, "steadily four days a week, and devotes the other two to riding, and she collects newspaper clippings on out-of-theway subjects. She is a connoisseur of bric-abrac, and, while she declines point blank to talk about her own bucks, she can make a lark pie, and her favorite author is Dickens. She has written in all some fifty-three novels; is married to her publisher; writes a legible autograph, and is compiling her reminiscences." A Self-convicted Vandal.--The Rev. Dr. De Witt Talmage professe'sto be a lover of books, and yet he does a thing that no real book-lover could do. If in the midst of writing a sermon he needs a quotation, he seizes the volume that contains it and tears out the desired page with ruthless hand. Then, taking his shears, he cuts out the particular passage he needs, and pasting it on his manuscript page, tosses the book aside. There is scarcely a book in his library that is not so mutilated. "But what do you do when you wish to refer to such a passage again?" a reporter asked him. "I never want to refer to it again," he answered sententiously. "When I have used it once, I am done with it for good."--The Critic. He Failed With Eclat.--Of the late Professor Paley, the eminent Cambridge scholar, and grandson of the famous author of the" Evidences of Christianity," this story is told: He was standing for his "little go" at Cambridge, and the said " Evidences" was one of the subjects he had to offer for examination. In spite of his relationship to the distinguished author, Mr. Paley's mind was in a state of out...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130872343
- ISBN 13 9781130872347
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages248
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