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, ;'■ Mr; : G. >IC. ■ Chesterton's-'iaameiMS ~ familiar enough.how, -but-'only nine years ago he.m unknown'tff.the,public:..,lit .-was. in.lW.ihat'ho nublished'-'his'Drst book,'v-The,Wild-vKnight,; and''other-Toems.'' - 1 This'ijittlfl;;volumo ,lias been long 'out;of 'print, tut Messrs; ■. J. :-M. -Dent andiCo. aro now, .prtparing to issue ;a now edition; which will bo, i ,:*vispd by. tho author aaid coritain'many.pntircly no* poems. ■'-

; 'lt is by'.no moans oasy to think of any pps-.siblo--combination ■ of - circumstances • which should link' Lord Byron and .Charles Dickens with tho late George Manville , Fenu.' ( .But there is such a link in. cxistenco;(thp • Westminster Gazette" remjiris us),, and-one of-a very interesting charac-jeT.-. Among thy' curiosities treasured up for ysars by Mr, lenn is a letter in, aOKsraphupon a sheet, of old-fashioned, 1 blu'ei'wiio-woven notopapcr., it remained for..years,More-Mr., 1 ennr.-received-it' upon the bid-file oi.tho tradesman to whom it was sent, with tW result that it,is.pierced by three rough hob* where the wire .passed through .the original--folds, of the, tiine-staincd paper; The letter it>Mea. to , Lord ■ Byron a 'flute.-' Dated in.tho|.)lder.-novelist's character-, istic -way, "Devosihire Terrace, Twentieth June/-1648/'-- the do;A iriont. r*ad*- "V V. C'n-v-i Dickens is much oblsged to Mr. Clandgo lor the offer,of .Lord Byr(,r;s Uute. wit, 3a i.».. Dickens .cannot pis;--..that instrument himselt, and hes nobody lc.Uiis can, ho begs to'decline tho v pnrihase,-with thanks. As My. Fenn used to say,/ in; showing the relic' to his friends,' "You Cannot' scp,' a .;sinilo upon the naoer,' but then) - seems' '.to bo 'one playing among tho words.7 -One thinks of ; the molan-cholv.-Young. geoiioman.' at lodgers sand, the fluts serenade,. ai(d:.of Dick' Swivcller's mournful nocturnal.' parformances on the samp instrument when Siphy Wdckles had been lost to him' for,, ever.; .£,?..'':.;,.,,,: i ~; ;:. .l;„ .... ; ,'./:' ■