Show SUES WANDERING JEW it so fascinated a missouri elan that iio hardly took time to eat 1 I remember what a wonderful fascination ci eugene ue wandering jew had for me when as a boy I 1 got hold of the coveted work I 1 had heard so much about said L M vincent of st louis to a washington post representative senta tive 1 I would scarcely clr time to eat so tremendously was I 1 excited over the t he fortunes of eose and blanche dj alma and adrienne Adrien nc and all my studies were neglected till the last page of the harrowing story bad been perused the other day by accident a copy of that long spun out romance fell into my hands while traveling and I 1 thought ad beguile air hour or so in reading a chapter here and there but less than an hour was sufficient to excite such profound disgust at the book that caught my youthful fancy that I 1 tossed it aside with contempt how a grownup grown up person with any literary taste could read such utter rot is past my comprehension it is a vilf story vilely told in contrast to this 1 could not help but think of my reading of the antiquary for the second time after the lapse of 30 years the grace of its telling and the charm of its characters were even stronger than in those early days the product of ane master appeals to all generations and the time will never come when such beautiful stories as the antiquary will not count their readers by the tens of thousands |