Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1912 — Thackeray’s Kindness of Heart. [ARTICLE]

Thackeray’s Kindness of Heart.

Thackeray was the gentlest satirist that evter lived. As editor of the Cornhill be could hardly bring himself to reject a manuscript for fear of hurting bis would be contributors. Tbe story of his actually paying for contributions that he never printed in order to conceal the fact that be bad rejected them may be true or false. We do not remember exactly bow tbe evidence points. But even If It be a story, such stories are not told of men made of the stern stuff of tbe Thackeray commonly misknown.—Londtn Saturday Review. Beginning Saturday, March 2nd, we Will sell $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50 and $5.00 men’s shoes at $1.98 a pair. Shoes shown in our window. The G. E. Murray Co. *