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Show The Cure of Fame. ' Poor Dr. Holmes! It is no wonder he wants people to stop trying to write poe-' poe-' try, wbn, as he says, he has. for the last thirty years, received a volume of poems o'- a poem, printed or in manuscript, nearly near-ly every day. Then he adds, amiably "Of late I have found it impossible to read critically all the literary productions, produc-tions, in prose and verse, which have heaped themselves on every exposed surface sur-face of my library, like snow drifts along the railroad tracks-blocking my literary pathway, so that I can hardly find my daily paper-" Can good nature go farther far-ther than this? Has the good doctor no energetic friend who will clear his ibrary of these drifts and bundle them all into a bonfire? -Think- of the conceit, the impertinence im-pertinence and utter want cf kindly corj-gideration corj-gideration of thescndersl-PittoburgBul-letin. . - |