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Show Booth Tarkington's Littlo Joke. A good story of Tarkington's Princeton days is related in this month's Bookman. The managing editor of the Nassuu Litorury i Mngnzino at that time was a person who took himself and his litornry responsibilities with portentouH seriousness. Ko was wont i to speak in necents of emphatic scorn of tho quality of the submitted contributions from which ha wns supposed to make a periodical peri-odical worthy of tho sonior class. One day ho found in his lottor box a poem which movod him to morn than usual disgust. "Seo hero," ho snorted, contemptuously, "this is what souio fool freshman sends in and calls pootrv. How am I going to mako a magazine out of stuff liko this? How hid I. I nskl" "Oh, thatl" spoke up Tarkington. "es, I sent that in myself." "So you wrotu it, did you?" growled tho mannging editor. "No," said Tarkington, sweetly, I did not writo it. I only copied it. It was writ-ton writ-ton by Tonnyoon." |