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Show SUE'S "VANDER1NG JEW." It So'TiiRclnatua u nU'ioarl Tau That, lie llarilljr Took Time to Kilt. "1 remember what a wonderful fas- i cinution Kugene Sue'.s 'Wandering Jew' had for me when an a boy 1 got hold of tho covered work 1 had heard o inu"h about," said L. M. Vincent, oi St. Louis, to a Wasliington Post repre sentntive. "1 would fxaircely take time to eat, o trcmendoualy was I excited over Uie fortunes of Roue and Ulauehe, Djaliaa and Adricnne,'"and all my studies won' neglected till the last page of the liar-row liar-row iug stoiy had linen jruscd. '1 he itlier day by accident n. copy of that long-spun-out romance fell ii:tj my t hands while traveling, and I thought I'd beguile an hour or so in reading a chapter here and there. "But lcs than nn hour was sufllcient to excite such profound disgust nt the book that caught, my youthful fancy, that I tossed it aside, with contempt. How a grown-up person with any literary lit-erary taste could read such uttrr rot is past my comprehension. It i.. :t v'le story, vilely told. In contra t to thir. I could not. lielp but think of my reading read-ing of 'The Antiquary' for the second time after the lapse of 30 yer.rs. The grace of its telling and the charm of its characters were oven stronger than in thoae early days. Tho product of -tfie mostor appeals to nil generations, and tho time will never come when auch beautiful stories as 'The Ant'quary' will not count their render by J4ie tens of thousands." .t .i |