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Show Easily Explained. George Meredith, the veteran Eng-' llsli novellBt, who recently celebrated hits seventy-ninth birthday, Is still vigorous vig-orous In mind. Ho lives, more or less of a lcclusc, In IiIb country home, stir-rounded stir-rounded by books. The houso Is Binall, though extremely comfortable Ono day he was showing a friend over tho place, when tho visitor said: "In your books you dcscilbe huge, castles and baronial halls, but when you come to build you put up a llttlo houso llko this. Why 1b It?" "Well," replied tho author, with a twinkle In his eye, "tho reason Is because words are cheaper than btoncs." |