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Show Thd liar 1 1 ill Authors. I reached London just too late fur the mimiiil authors' dinner, which is one of the events of the season there, and on this account, and because my time was almost entirely taken up by the law business about which I bad gone over, I diil not meet as many of the, literary men as I should have liked to meet. I taw a good deal, howeYer, of Edmund 'iosse. who one of tjiu most polished j.'.mI delightful of men, and has always iieen very kind to mo. His house is a sm t of 'enter, his .Sunday evenings bein;; delightful occasions where ons may : jmt-t u score of writers, sculptors and l .rmintvM. j i Vcasio;ir.1ly I met him at lunch at hia club, whore, he. would get Austin Dob-foil, Dob-foil, who is. like himself, in an official i position in Whitehall, and obtains there-' there-' ' from the substantial of life which enable ena-ble him to cultivate tho muses on some- . thing a little better than "oaten reed." j Roth Dobson and Gosse aro directly in line for tho laureateship when it Bhall fall vacant, though no one knows who will gei it. I am indebted to both of j ,; them for much personal kindness. Gosse is a good sized, handsome man, of the blonde English typo, with the cheeriest face and voice, and wherever he goes it : (jrews warm and comfortable. Dobson is fomewhat older. Both of them strike rie as being among tho most cultured men t ever met. They have English lit- ' eratnre lit their fingers' ends, and dwell i ; in au atmosphere which is redolent of the masters. Thomas Nelson Tage in Richmond Times. |