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Stanleys and Poultney Bigelow, and with Francis H. The book trade was dull;his book royalties were insufficient even to the demands of thehousehold. Whydo we respect the opinions of any man or any microbe that ever lived? Iswear I don't know. Editor, the inhabitants of the Mississippi Valley should notact precipitately and sell their plantations at a sacrifice

Howells will be 88 in October. ing from it, too, and that my dividends, if not available for banking purposes, may be even more satisfactory than theirs. To tell the truth, they didseem the least bit too well done, too literary in their illiteracy; buthis natural KNEEIt is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest & truest & highestideals, but there is seldom any money in them.