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Show PREFER TALKING TO READING Writer Asserts That Southerners Excel in One of the Most Charming of Accomplishments. Fifteen years ago, of thereabouts, I ' heard a publisher describe the South aa "the home of- the paper-covered novel and the ten-cent magazine." Since the demise of Poe's Southern Literary Messenger, no magazine of any large significance or popularity has been edited in Dixie. Today, there Is no great publishing house in the South. But the aristocrats of Dixie, the fine, cultured, delightful Southerners one knows how comes it that they confess to an utter and absolute indifference in-difference toward reading? Come here and live and you will soon see. It is because of talk. They are the most charming talkers on earth. Instead In-stead of burying their noses in books when the sun goes down, they sit about and chut. Match them at that If you can. A subject will last from dinner to bedtime. - They turn it over nd over and inside out and Illumine with the quaintest observations, the taost comical stories. By comparison, reading becomes odious because at once toilsome and solitary. Rolliu Lynde Hartt in Boston Transcript. |