In Coulson Kernahan's new book of stories about "Celebrities," Barrie's dry humour is neatly illustrate ed in the record of a remark he made on a gift by Queen Victoria of a silver-plated snuff-box to an old and faithful servant. "This is too much your Majesty," said the recipient. God knows it 1s not," the Queen answered fervently. "And I can't see that it was," wag Barrie's comment.
Another of Coulson Kernahan's stories is about Ian Maclaren, who said to him:—"My son had been trying to read my books, and in a confidential mood remarked, 'I say, father, why don't you write a proper sort of book—Sherlock Holmes or Jack Harkaway, or something of that sort,—and not so much of this Scotch rot?"
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