Lo roi est mort, vive lo rol. 30 one might say on reading that} Sherlock Holmes is dead, for in fact he can never die, or at least] not for ages yet. Tremendous as is the output of "crime" stories, many the rivals that Holmes as had, there remains that undefinable something in Conan Doyle's creation which puts him among the great characters fiction. The Sherlock Holmes: who is really dead, aged 72, is Mr. Walter Paget, who' was taken as a model by his elder brother" when: the latter was illustrating Conan Doyle's stories. Walter Paget had just the lean hawk-like face which [sulted the part, though in tact he had nothing whatever of the defective about him, but was an artist who did a great deal of book lustration himself, notably that for "Treasure Island." He was a war ortist, too, and accompanied the Suakim Expedition in 1885 for the Felief of General Gordon, for the Hlustrated London News." Nowa-ays the fine work of the black-and-
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