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Show Dlsslpa'.ed Men of Genius. Thoro Is nn unpleasant stdo light thrown on tho days of W. E. Henley and his youthful followers, by Mr. Ed. gir Jopson, tho novelist. Ho defend In the London Academy tho memory of tho late Ernest Dowbon, who, kinking kink-ing under consumption, found liquor , both anodyne and stimulant. "Unfortunately, "Unfor-tunately, too," adds Mr. Jopson, j "whisky was a literary fashion, set by Henley. It was an appalling fash- i Ion, which some of tho younger men of letters followed with n kind of foolish fool-ish schoolboy bravado. I have seen three of tho llnest minds I havo known drown In whisky." |