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Show CULTURE IN CHICAGO. A Trifling: Mistake Has Made Things V pleasant For a Noted Author. When the president of that exclusive literary organization, the Twentieth Century club, introduced Dr. A. Conan Doyle to a Chicago audience' Friday evening, he committed an error which is likely to give rise to serious complications compli-cations and to involve Dr. Doyle in em barrassment. Dr. Doyle is not a theologian theo-logian at any rate, not a professional theologian. He must have been startled when the lion. George E. Adams announced an-nounced him as Canon Doyle. Presumably Presum-ably many of the cultured men and women who wero present at the Twentieth Twen-tieth Century club reception take it for granted, upon the authority of the club's president, Mr. Adams, that Dr. Doyle is a canon, an associate perhaps of Canon Farrar, and high in tho councils of the augnst church of England. e hear it rumored that Mr. Higinbotham, president of onr late ever glorious and ever lamented World's fair, has not yet disabused his mind of the serious error arising from Mr. Adams' blunder; that he addresses Dr. Doyle as Father Doyle, and that at luncheon yesterday he saia to his distinguished guest, "Will yon reverence ask the blessing?" We don't know how true it is, but we understand that Dr. Doyle has been Invited to "fill tha pulpit" in a number num-ber of our churches, and that he is besieged be-sieged with letters addressed variously "Rev. Dr. Doyle, " "Eev. Canon Doyle, " "The Very ev. Canon Doyle," eto. Altogether ranch confusion has been precipitated iy the little slip made simply sim-ply in carelessness by tho ptesident of the Twentieth Century club. We think it incumbent upon that leading literary organization of the west to set aboui correcting the error its executive has tnnocently spung upon the publio and apon a very distinguished visitor. Eugene Field in Chicago Eecord. |