Presently his eye fell upon the memorandum-book, lying there
spread out like a morning newspaper, and almost in spite of himself he
read: "Don't forget to see the binder," "Don't forget to mail E----- his
contract," "Don't forget H-----'s proofs," etc. An inspiration seized
upon the youth; he took a pencil, and at the tail of this long list of
"don't forgets" he wrote: "Don't forget to accept A 's poem." He left
his manuscript on the table and disappeared. That afternoon when the
publisher glanced over his memoranda, he was not a little astonished at
the last item; but his sense of humor was so strong that he did accept
the poem (it required a strong sense of humor to do that), and sent the
lad a check for it, though the verses remain to this day unprinted. That
kindly publisher was wise as well as kind.
FRENCH novels with metaphysical or psychological prefaces are always
certain to be particularly indecent.
I HAVE lately discovered that Master Harry Sandford of England, the
priggish little boy in the story of "Sandford and Merton," has a worthy
American cousin in one Elsie Dinsmore, who sedately pirouettes through
a seemingly endless succession of girls' books.
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