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Show was not fi-om Judge Longstreet's hand that admirable description of the militia company drill w'aich Mr. Thc-mag Thc-mag Hardy seems to have made free with in the twenty-third chapter of "The Trumpet Major." Almost as amusing as the apparently plundered sketch is the fact that when the "lifting" "lift-ing" was exposed by the "Critic" in parallel columns, a writer in the "Daily News" was it Mr. Andrew Lang? came to the rescue of the British novelist nov-elist by pointing out how far the latter had improved upon the crude sketch of the American provincial. But alas; no sootier had this convincing proof of British superiority been given than the "Critic" was forced to explain that by an unlucky (sic) mistake the authors' names at the tops of the columns had been transposed! HOIST WITH HIS OWN PETARD. Professor Trent of Columbia University Univer-sity in "A Retrospect' of American Humor," in the November Century, tells the following anecdote in connection con-nection with an account of Judge Longstreet's book called "Georgia Scenes": Unless he was mystifying his read-era, read-era, one of the best scenes in. his book |