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Show GREAT NAMES IN DIRECTORY. I Many Namesaf-es cf Famous Lights of Literature. A study of tho new London Directory, Direc-tory, which this ycars( 13 pounds. Is extremely Inteiestlng In tho caso of literature, wo aro accustomed to regard re-gard tho minion of great authors ns ending with them; yet tho greatest of Bnrllsh writers has several namo-sakes namo-sakes scattered over London. William Shakespeare, professor of singing, almost al-most alone carries on tho artistic tradition tra-dition of tho nnmo; but there Is something some-thing quite miznbethan in theaddicss, "Green Lanes." appertaining to Henry Shakespeare, a grocer. John Bunynn Is nnuther ,.ocer. In what Londoners will describe ns "the" Bdgwnro load. William Blnko Is a beer retailer, a craft that Is far removed from "songs of Innocence." Chancer Is a namo that seems to havo absolutely dropped out. Milton, of roursB, Is fnl-lv common, com-mon, although the only John .iln'c " ' ore n ship chandler nnd a chiropodist, neither of them poetic nvocutlons. j Keats occurs a few times, but thero Is , no John Keats. Curiously enough, there Is net a single Kcble, but thero Is ono Def " Tho name of Bronte Is owned very appropilatcly by a woman, but sho makes clothes lnstend of novels. |
