How did Thomas Day ever conceive such a character as Br. Barlow? "We read of the author follows: "Day, Thomas, June 23, Y748—September 28,1789. An English writer and philanthropy Sanford and Merton, ete." Truly, pretty wit, that of the biographer brief! Else why "Philanthropist," end, directly thereafter, "Sandford fand Merton?" The creator of Boy-food's Biggest Bore, a philan-thrapist?. None but the most confirmed hater of his fellows coald have infieated such a ereature. upon them! Yet "it may be that his claim to the rests pon this; that "180" years. before. his time, he anticipated the "Questionnaire,°—that bane of the modern few and blessing of the modern many—and, having got Har-Sandford and Tommy Merton into Barlow's fell clutches, he proceeded to influence posterity by s0gfrestion, and to enable them to save money by quietly stopping at home of a night, armed with the very latest compilation of "Do You
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