don, 1926, Journalists at home must have been tempted of Into to envy the tear standardized methods of hundred years ago, when the, "Glargow Chronicle" was able! to print in its lender column this rather naive apology for the absence of the usual article-—."The} intelligence contained in our paper——Wdiiy: is blot of och a nature as to afford occasion for remarks this place; fortunately s0, for we have no "Tt may be doubted, however, the excuse was 25 genuine as it sounds, for. this very] abbreviated "leaderette" appeared an April 4, 1820, on the eve of the Radical Rising, when comment. in a Whig newspaper might have hind @angerous consequences.—It significant, perhaps, that' the news, which is said to have crowded out der is mot that of local! disturbances, but '3 concerned almost, whaly with revolution Spain, Mid: ile age, instead of luring Hilaire Belloc to indolence, seems to have made him busier than ever.
Te 's at present finishing a new nove) which Messrs. Arrowsmith Like his last novel, This is the story of the life of a yr, Evan Lee, written by a friend, partly from his own kaowledge and observation of the man und partly from material supplied Evan Lee's sister. He was the Indian Army' and was a comparatively early ige in a frontier skirmish, so that xt is only as a young man we see Tt is not a pleasant, business a fine character has been portrayed to pick holes, and, before ig of the acter, it must be understood that Evan' Lee was a fne man, a straight elean-living Englishman such as have helped for years past to built up an cement the British Empire; in thi particular ease, India. But a man may be a good man without being a prig—a man may be good but never "Perfect and our complaint or rather criticism is that the author has tried to create an impossible charaeter, A great deal of the book is extraordinary good and excellent and interesting reading, but we wish that Evaa Lee had been a Tittle less given to self-examination and a little more human, it wil be illustrated little open-drawings by no a person than Mr. GK. Chesterton, Besides doing Jmmense amount of journalism, Belloc is writing a life of the Duke of. Marlborough, a treatise on Trigonometry, and preparing for the press the second volume of his Uistory of England, An interesting and curious letter by John Bright tas just been covered, Dated Rochdale, Jane 28, 1849, it ie addressed to the Jate Rev, Henry Renton, who was. for many years minister' of the United Presby' Church Keleo, Scotland, and wag an ardent platform cham-"pion on the Liberal side.
The letter follows Esteemed friend thee to ce the editer the Kelso paper to si him to suppress that ner lon och (st Haw ins whish 1 declared any law fled revel ver the Seport—se rose ost at thin hat in absurd and to od a word where the meg be wont jue reports hea Important, tothe tpeaxer and bible. We bad a grand meeting Rewesttie—to-nich: fe go to Achton—12 miles from this. Twas entirely ex
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