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Show CULTlRE IN CHICAGO. A Trifling: Mistake Has Made Thing Unpleasant Un-pleasant For a Noted Author. When the president of that exclusive literary organization, the Twentieth Century club, introduced Dr. A. Condn Doyle to a Chicago audience Friday evening, he committed an ceror which ia likelv to cive rise to serious corntni- cations and to involve Dr. Doyle in embarrassment. em-barrassment. Dr. Doyle is not a theologian theo-logian at any rate, not a professional theologian. He must have been startled when the Hon. George E. Adams announced an-nounced him as Canon Doyle. Presumably Presum-ably many of the cultured men and women who were present at the Twentieth Twen-tieth Century club reception take it for granted, upou the authorit r of the club's president, Mr. Adams, t'. .t Dr. Doylo is a canon, an associate perhaps of Canon Farrar, and high in the councils of the august church of England. 7e hear it rumored that Mr. Jliginbotham, president of our 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 said to his distinguished guest, "Will your reverence ask the blessing?" We don't know how true it is, but we understand that Dr. Doyle has been invited to "fill the pulpit" in a number num-ber of our churches, and that he Is besieged be-sieged with letters addressed variously "Rev. Dr. Doyle," "Rev. Canon Doyle, " "The Very Rev. Canon Doyle, " eto. Altogether much confusion has been precipitated iiy the little slip made simply sim-ply in .carelessness by the piesidont of the Twentieth Century club. We think it incumbent upon that leading literary organization of the west to aet about correcting the error its executive has innocently sp ung upon the public and upon a very distinguished visitor. Eugene Field in Chicago Record. |