Literary Laconics.
Reading edition
We understand that Mr. Gunther, the autograph virtuoso, recently paid two hundred and fifty dollars for an autograph of Dante Alighieri, which he discovered on the fly-leaf of a volume of Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poems.
Mr. Mæcenas B. Fulsomtone, the well-known purveyor of green hams, and president of the Michael Angelo Art Club, has just sent to his London agent an order for fifteen thousand dollars’ worth of books. The choice of volumes is left with the agent; the only specification made by Mr. Fulsomtone being that the books contain plenty of pictures, and be bound in red morocco.
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