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Show A DEFENSE OF SLANG. Writer Believes It to Be the Language of Sincerity. So far from being nn cvidonco of n national levity and lack of seriousness slang Is tho language of sincerity. It is tho result of nn instinctive effort to get as far away as posslblo from everything like pretentiousness. It Is tho nntlpodos of bathos. It Is tho language of tho wholo people, becauso It Is oxpresslvo of tho national sonso of humor that Is nover so keen as when it contemplates with a joy llko-wlso llko-wlso unutterablo tho spectaclo presented pre-sented bv a fako cxp'iscd. It Is blunt, It Is en e, It Is brutal sometimes, but It Is always sincere. It directs against tho cltndols of ovll tho mighty enginery en-ginery of laughter. It doos for our nascent nbusos what tho mordant satire sat-ire of Martial and Juvenal failed to do 1 for decadont home. Prof. Hormnn j Sponccr In Booklovors Magazluo. |