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Show Courtship Is dead, avers tbo London World. Young men no longer make passionate avowals, they never stnrt when she approaches, they do not grow pallid with Jealousy if another seems to bo in favor, they certainly do not write sonnets to their mistress' mis-tress' eyebrow in fact, they scarcely even go so far as to write her a letter, let-ter, and if they do go. to this length the result is never worth republishing in book form. Lovers do not talk about their hearts, and so on, and if engagements aro terminated the severed twain have no scruples about subsequently meeting each other. In novels something must be done to make up Xor tbc unromantlc spirit of tho age, so awful situations have to bo invented for hapless heroines, who either have to kill themselves or bo killed or die In lunatic asylums or convents. |