Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1891 — No Time Lost. [ARTICLE]

No Time Lost.

Prominent men are continually importuned to read and comment on new books. It is not every victim that can bring: as much tact and wil to his rescue as the one in the follow injr incident: A certain well-knowr man of letters received from a, friend of much ambition, but small literary talent, n volume of portentous leng;t It which he was requested to read and criticise for its author’s benefit. For a moment the recipient of the ponderous tome was staggered by the weight of the burden laid upon him; then a happy inspiration-seized him, and 6iiatcning up his pen, he addressed to his torrnenter the following note: “Dear X.—l have received your book, and shall lose no time ir reading itl”