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Show A Lltsrary Yssmlng. "I'd give a good bit to get hold of some of old Beadle's novels," said the man of forty five. "I get so weary of the popular novels thst are being ground out by the fiction factories that my soul fairly yearns for the good old stories 1 used to read when I was a boy. So keen has this longing become be-come that I have been going around among the old book stores where second sec-ond hand periodicals are kept In the hope of picking up some of the Beadle's Bea-dle's dime and half-dime libraries. But my quest has been In vain. "I find that there are blood and thunder publications Issued today, but they have nothing of the charm possessed pos-sessed by such writers as Col. Prentice Ingraham, Ned Buntllne. Edward L. Wheeler, whose Deadwood Dick stories were classics, snd Edward 8. Ellis, who wasn't ashamed to sign his stories for Besdle. In spite of the fact that be was also known In the educational ft Aid. Thee men were artists in their ay. and 1 am sure that many an old boy of my age shares my regret that their work shouldn't be preserved." |