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Show Bathetic. General Marion Mans has a keen and delicate taste in literature, and at a recent dinner at Vancouver Barracks, Bar-racks, discussing a popular novel of little worth. General Maus said: "The pathos of the book is really bathos. It reminds me of a private's widow. The good woman was about to sell her household furniture, her rugs, plated ware and what not. As Bhe was going over these articles her eyes filled with tears, a host of memories mem-ories rose to her mind, and, laying aside a half-dozen knives, she said: '"Oh, dear! I can't let these go! They've been in poor George's mouth too often!'" |