Show THE AMERICAN literary dead beat ia not commonly accounted lacking ingenuity otherwise impudence but t when he IB compared with his British brother he is bat as a babe to a Bismarck in craft Thus an Eng lish htrary man whether with or without a wooden leg is not specified advertises in a religious paper asking the readers of the life and works of an eminent authoress recently deceased de-ceased to heJp him in bis hoorr of need on the ground that he wrote a poem to her memory at the time of her death |