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Rh a long-suffering and wonderfully patient public to wish that the writers of these articles had lived and died in old Etruria.

Again congratulating you, I am, gentlemen,

Yours very truly,

Principal and College Professor of Latin.

—Dr. F. W. Lytle, Lebanon, Illinois, says, "I have personally used it with marked advantage when overworked and the nervous system much depressed."

have just issued an anonymous novel, "Wallingford," which rumor says is from the pen of an official of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The author's desire, according to report, is to test, without the influence of name, the theory that popular taste is for the romantic, sentimental, pathetic, and broadly humorous in literature, as against the photographic realism of the day which seems to hold any approach to feeling or "sympathy with characters" as bad literary form. The author appears to have thrown down the gauntlet and entered upon this ambitious design very boldly. Those who have seen the proofs speak highly of the work. Romance, sentiment, pathos, and broad humor in literature are good, but whether the author of "Wallingford" has captured them remains to be seen.

—Dr. W. W. Gray, Cave Spring, Georgia, says, " I have given it in several cases of habitual sick headache, with perfect success."

Book-Talk in the April number of Lippincott's Magazine reviewed a book of poems by James Gay, of Ontario, Canada. The Reviewer is pleased to know that his slight notice has been appreciated by the author, as the following letter will testify. As the work of a true genius, the compositor has been instructed not to tamper with any of its orthographical, rhythmic, or grammatical peculiarities, but to set up the "copy" exactly as it was received.

To J B Lippincott And Co Philadelphia Gentlemen when reading your Monthly Magazine the other day behold I fell in with The Elephant And Flea composed by the Master of all Poets come from where the may You have the names of many a bright Poet as Long since passed away not one of those could Compose with this Little Man James Gay My composing with theirs is on a diferant stile All together for the good of man makes all Heavens Smile I was Born a Poeit Thousands on earth well Know it all through my life understand Ive don my Duty between God and Man always ready to do him Good as far as I can this is the true Caractor of this fore Said Little Man no novels or fary tales with James Gay When ever I take my pen in hand to compose Christ tells Me what to say all my books are composed on a solid