Show PREFER TALKING TO READING writer asserts that southerners excel in one of the most charming of accomplishments fifteen years ago of theron bouts I 1 hoard heard it publisher describe tho the south as aa the home of the ho paper covered novel and the ten cent magazIn ei 11 since the demise of poes southern literary no magazine of any largo large significance or popularity has been edited lit in dixie today there Is no great publishing lit in the south sou hi but the aristocrats of dixie tile tho fine cultured delightful southerners one knows liow how comes come it that they confess to nil utter and absolute indifference toward reading lending conic come here and live and you will soon see if it Is because of talk they tire me the roost most charming tali cers on earth in ili itene of burying their noses lit in books when lian tile sun still goes down don they hey sit nebout and chat them thein nt at that it if you can A subject will hlll last from dinner to bedtime they turn it over ind nd over and inside out and illumine tz with the ho quaintest quain test tile taoist comical stories by comp comparison arlson rendi rending tig becomes necomes odious because at once toilsome and solitary lyndo ibartt in boston transcript |