Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1914 — Great Author's Optimism. [ARTICLE]

Great Author's Optimism.

Of that form of eccentricity closely related to egotism, whereby many of the world’s greatest artists and writers have conveyed to us their appreciation of their own work, a most interesting case is that of Thackeray, ordinarily a most modest man. But there is good authority that Thackeray never passed the house In Russell square wherein he lived when he wrote “Vanity Fair,’* without raising his hat—a tribute from , himself to his great work.—The Sunday Magazine.