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Show Onr Literary Conquest In England. A little book is to be published here on "First Editions of American Authors." From this one may fairly assume that the popularity of transatlantic writers in England is now considerable. Not very many years ago Longfellow, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Lowell, Mark Twain, Artemus Ward and Josh Billings were almost all the American authors in whom the British public took any inter- umvreui la me situation nowl American books swarm in our literary markets, and their authors, like so many Englishmen and women, have a reputation reputa-tion on both sides of the Atlantic. Every day the rapprochement between the two great literatures e.nd the two great reading read-ing publics grows closer and closer. London Figaro. |