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Show uo COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS. 'Lord Rosebury, in a recent speech at the Mansion House In connection with the Charles Dickens centenary testimony fund, expressed the hope that there would be millions of American Amer-ican applications for the Dickens com-memoratie com-memoratie stamps. Wo respectfully suggest that thore bo issued a Washington Wash-ington Irving commemorative stamp, that the proceeds be devoted to some fitting memorial to the author of "Bracebridgo Hall," and that the op-uortunlty op-uortunlty to purchase this stamp be given freely to the British public. Washington Irving, ns Thackeray expressed ex-pressed It In ono of his "Roundabout Papers," was a kind of literary embassador em-bassador from the young republic lo the mother country. In his subsequent subse-quent writings his treatment of his i hosts was one of unvarying courtesy I and urbanity. Wo have no record of j his having received any material re- I ward corresponding with tho vast sums of money which accrued to Dickens Dick-ens as a result of the American readings. read-ings. Tho April Bookman. |