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Show Our 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 TwuUuaj Ward and Josh Billincs were almost all the American authors in whom the British public took any interest. inter-est. How different is the 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 and the two great reading read-ing publics grows closer and closer.-Loudon closer.-Loudon Figaro. Hoopskirts, which came into vogne In the year 1580, weighed between SO and 40 pounds, but it was the "fashion," and they were lugged about by the belles of the period despite the discomfort. |