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Show Kipling's Town Monument, The naming of a new. Caaadlan town after Mr. Hlpling puts him on a level, in this respect, with Shakespeare. Shake-speare. Not counting our own Shal:e-spearo Shal:e-spearo cliff at Dover, we And Just on Shakespeare In the atlas, and that in Canada. Dickens scores four times in the United States, and Thackeray once. That is to say, they do if we may assume that the places in question ques-tion wore named in honor of the novelists nov-elists and not after some obscurer individuals. in-dividuals. Doubts of this kind increase In the cases of the 30 odd Scotts re vealed by tho atlas, not to speak of the 60 or 60 Miltons. Dut a good many of theso and of the 20-odd Byrons must certainly attest literary enthusiasm, enthusi-asm, whatever wo may think of the two American Bacons. London (Eng.) Daily Chronicle. ' |