A New Author.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 16 July 1903, Page 11

A New Author.

4R. 0. Gleaner ' in the ' Catholio Columbian ' tells a story which book-lovers will enjoy. A well-known man, who spendß his time nearly altogether immersed in his books, has a wife who hardly ever reads anything more solid than the fashion column of some ladies' magazines, but etill Bhe likes once in a while to pretend that she takes an interest in her husband's books, and so from time to time she goes to his library and takes out a book just for appearance sake. * I chose a book this morning,' she remarked the other day to her husband, with a bright umile, 'by an author named Volix. la he considered a good writer 1 ' ' Volix I ' said the good man in a puzzled tone ; and then, not liking to confess himself ignorant of oue of the books in his own library,! he added : ' Yes, my dear, a writer of very considerable power, who possesses a remarkable insight into his subjeot.' But when she had completed her elaborate toilet and had gone off to a party he sneaked round to her bedroom to discover the book of the author of whom he had never heard. It turned out to bo a volume of Browning's poetry, which happened to have been bound with no name: on the .back, where it merely bore the legend 'Vol. ix.'