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Show Talln TliaiLrra; nl...i.lr. Tlio nlmcurlty in which Thackeray has lift the beginning of N'ewcome, llart , Is an Inatamoot his forgetfnlnese about his ;ieopla which, glaring as It Is, I ashlthirtoestaped coiumint Thomas bewcomo tho ellir, is sold to havo U-en ' the fouudir" of tho Xewcoui famll), W'o uro klven to understand that in was a fouu lling Up to the llmoof bis demise there was no New -come, lUrt. Mr Kewcoino "might havo bi tn ma le" one, 1 ut he eeehawn! bWl rel bands." As bo sail, "It wouldn't do. the Quaker connection would i'l like it." Hut hLrtwIn sons by his second wife, bophla Alcthea Hobsuii, uru state.1 M havo bdeucall si Iloltsoti and DrUn, ro siMHrtlrcly, "after tlulr undo and lato i graiidfatlur, whoso miino and rank tl ey were destined to ertwtuate " Thil "rank" Isclearl) the Sewcomolairoi" ctcy, but equally clearly tho undo ai. 1 grandfather must baobin llolnona tlio fuunder of tho Kewcomo family bo lug himself alone " Tho twins nt firs take order as alio o. Tin n 3ii m is declared de-clared to bo theilder"byitqnart. nf nil hour." llo Is referred t) ns Mr Ilrlan " All at onco ho bccomis "Kir llrian," anl ' iierpctuntes ' a "rank" to vihlcli, for all that appears, ho ha 1 no right whatever. Notes and IJuirlis. |