'The Ladies' dinner of the New Vagabon Club was a most amusing function. Mr. Hall Came presided in his most genial form over four hundred men and women, most of whom write or paint or draw or something like that in order to gratify a natural instinct for art, and incidentally to keep the wolf from the door. 'The costumes of most of the ladies proved that the wolf was a long way off, and that if he should descend upon the fold, there was a diamond or two to pacify him.' Mrs, Steele, whose Indian stories have made her famous, responded for her sex in a rattling good Forges in the course of which she said that woman was certainly going more out into the world, was more and more Teaving the home; that she hoped that woman would leave the home in the morning with the same regret, and come back to it in the evening with the same joy, as man had learned to display in centuries of duplicity. Her chaff was very good chaff indeed, and hor pathos very pretty pathos.
JEROME K. JEROME, the hard and able worker. For a long time assistant editor of the Idler, and of To-Day, he has resigned these positions on Mr. Jerome's publications to become the literary adviser of Pearson in the new publishing business that he has added. to his other forms of enterprise. Notwithstanding an utter absence of hair upon_ the crown of his head, Mr. Bargin is youthful in appearance, of debunnaire manners, and of aquaint and witty conversation. Mr. Burgin has a charming and popular wife, tand though their house is half an hour away by train, itis thronged with bright people when they entertain.
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