Show HAD TO ADMIT DRAWBACKS doubtful however if auctioneers auctioneer candor interfered with the sale of the estate A certain london auctioneer in addition to a fine personal appearance and splendid elocutionary talento talon tt la Is possessed of considerable culture and knowledge of human nature at a book sale gale this gentleman would read with exquisite taste casts passages from the books ho he was selling with brief biographies and critic criticisms iams of their authors reciting hexameters meters from greek and roman classics and rendering passages from humorous writers with a tone and air so BO ludicrous BB as to set the room in a roar of laughter thus he often won higher prices for books than those got atthe at the shops an amusing example of his cleverness in extolling an estate Is the ian language with which he once closed a highly colored description ot of the property he was selling for a few moments he paused and then said and now gentlemen having given a truthful description of this magnify cent estate candor compels me to admit that it has two drawbacks the litter berof of the roso rose loaves leaves and the bolso ot at the nightingales |