Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1918 — Why Indeed? [ARTICLE]

Why Indeed?

If we may judge by the recent and determined intrusion of spirits into authorship, heaven bids fair to be stacked with printing presses. One of’ their number, ipdeed, the “Living Dead Man,” whose publishers have unhesitatingly revealed (or, I might say, announced) his identity, gives high praise to a ghostly library, well catalogued, and containing millions of books and records. With such resources at their command, with the universe for inspiration, and the uncounted dead for readers, why should disembodied spirits force an entrance into our congested literary world and compete with the living scribblers who ask their little day?—Agnes Repplier, in the Atlantic.