Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1911 — Just Like Bennett. [ARTICLE]

Just Like Bennett.

“Arnold Bennett, the latest visitor to these shores,” said a New York editor, “is said to be the greatest living English novelist. I plump for Wells or Conrad myself. However —” The editor smiled. „ “A critic at the club the other day was listening to an execrable young novelist. The young man boasted on Interminably, but at last I heard the critic get in the words: “ ‘Do you know, you remind me of Arnold Bennett?’ “‘Really! The novelist blushed and laughed for pleasure. ‘Really? come now, do you really think —’ “‘Yes; you stutter so,’ said the critic.”