Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — Thackeray’s Kindness of Heart. [ARTICLE]

Thackeray’s Kindness of Heart.

Thackeray was the gentlest satirist that ever lived. As editor of the Cornhill he could hardly bring himself to reject a MS. for fear of hurting his would-be contributors. The story of his actually paying for contributions thht he never printed, in order to conceal the fact that he had rejected them, may be true or false. We do not remember exactly how the evidence points. But even if It be a story, such stories are not told of men made of the stern stuff of the Thackeray commonly mlsknown.