Show WIT MAKEs THE rHE SPARKS FLY no regular newspaper reador reader can be altogether ignorant concerning the wordy duel lately fought between the brilliant french author paul bourget a u the witty twain the coup de grace rom each combatant app eulls to lu bt be conceded to be in the iriner I 1 s jocular remark that he be sup BUD oat oaf li ii e can uever never get entirely dull to lo an american because wh whenever enover he h cault t up at ai y other way to put in nr nib time be cau can always get away with a fw year yean trying to find w ho his grandfather C t which twain with some eom humor but munh much brutality retorts that he reckon im s gi atai t ais little standby for a dull time to because when all other fall ail it tie can turu turn to in and see aee if he oan cant 16 find out who his bia father was waa max 0 obell the witty french writer lecturer and raconteur has hai now entered the djou with lance in rest real and sharpened quill to the Ino motive tives of his bli countryman and to measure weapons of with the troll roll Yar yankee ikee the march number of the worta aorta american review contains uis uia or life it bristles with irony and trenchant it if nut not weighty we pass by the wit wik and anecdote that bubble ail through it and q jote a passage or two aies ler erve really serl us ua consideration in n one place he be sy what would france teach us he mark twain exclaim i 4 again muralou Mur IMor alb alor no we cannot rob the poor to enrich ourel our elvea veis ll 11 now shall I 1 tell mark twain that thai the proportion of illegitimate ob children ildren to legitimate ones to la nine per cent ceni in paris twelve per cent in now new york afif aeu per percent cent in chicago and more than that in uan ban francisco oh I 1 like to 10 mention those ahinga but if mark twain wants wantai them hem here they AM are and the french have elk an elcue e lor for liaisons this thai does doe not net exist in Amer america lexi where marrying and un marrying re made so BO uy easy that really it cannot be worth anybody while to do without it agatine what could france teach america I 1 exclaims exo laima mark twain france can teach america all the higher pursuits of life and there is more artistic arti atio feeling and refinement in a street of french workingmen than in many avenues inhabited by american millionaires she oan can teach her not perhaps how to work r but how to rest now how to li live ve how to be happy 4 in prance france a man who was wag seen tipsy in his hia club would immediately see his name cancelled from membership A man who had settled his fortune on his wife to avoid meeting his creditors would be refused admission into any decent society many a frenchman has blown his brains out rather than declare himself a bankrupt now I 1 could fill a book on america with reminiscences of this sort adding a few eb chapters apters on bosses and bood lers on new york ch ronique on the tenement houses of the large cities on the gambling hells of denver aud the dens of san francisco and what hotl not but I 1 will not do it mark we give these for what they tire are worth and surely they are not without value perhaps max orell deals largely in that form ot of license commonly accorded to poets but not net lose leas generally assumed by atonal humorists Per bapp further he foe deals in this instance not in poetic license at all but with cold bare truth it seems leema to us the ALne american rican champion champi oo whoever be shall be has earnest and sober work on hand band an insulted or a humiliated as the case came way may be b nation awaits impatiently his performance |