Show D ss men of genius there Is an all unpleasant side light thrown on the days of W E henley and his youthful followers by mr ed gar jepson the novelist he defends in the london academy the memory of the late ernest dowson who sink ing under consumption found liquor both anodyne and stimulant anfor tuna tely too adds mr jepson whisky was a literary fashion fash ioa lox set by henley it was an appalling fash ion which some of the younger men of letters followed with a kind of tool fool ish schoolboy bravado I 1 have seen three of the finest minds I 1 haie hae cnown drown in whisky |