| Show iw lort two of the ablest anil lar american writers et on bide of gilder at fellon craft clab a dinner lately they were william ina aej frank R stockton II has a rather figure and ft roual face moustache h gray ami his gray hair is loosely a ing after daintier or conver rationalist for atio ailt of ahe gab with which he i lays no claim to butita bhanu chanu lays a silence upon the bearil which only the of lauchter lau ho to talk of hij early newis paper day of when he was an ink roller boy of the value he has ile rived from laiu practical knowledge of printing ami of the proud moment when he reached the editor of a country weekly the author of the lidy of tho Aroos look hails from ohio and u LOW fifty two years of age klon 13 and darker than his brother novelist he giai a masa of black waving hair ich eyes which are black and vivacious rive much animation to his face he too can stand up when the liuo and the walnuts are circulating and aiom mand interested attention from the merry makers who have temporarily been placed beyond files harm by haying dined he too was a newspaper man and he too loves to talk of those days when evanescent literature was his mistress he tella roost delightfully how beginning to write lorn daily newspaper ha dually rose 0 o a weekly aini in course of time readied the distine kioa of employing his pen for a monthly and he hopes in linia 1 achieve the altitude of an annual what he most desires however he jocosely says is to have a newspaper of hia own in which ha may write bu own criticisms of his awu literary work speaking ot new york reporters stock ton sas that a recent report of a fire in a new york newspaper was worthy ot an enduring place in literature |
