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Show Dissipated Men of Genius. There is an unpleasant side light thrown on tho days ot W. E. Henley and his youthful followers, by-Mr. Edgar Ed-gar Jepson, tho novelist. Ho defends In the London Academy the memory of the lato Ernest Dowaon, who, sinking sink-ing under consumption, found liquor both anodyno and stimulant. "Unfortunately, "Unfor-tunately, too," adds Mr. Jepson, "whisky was a literary fashion, set by Henley. It was an appalling fashion, fash-ion, which some ot the younger men ot letters followed with a kind' ot foolish fool-ish schoolboy bravado. I have seen three of tho finest minds I have known drown In whisky." |