Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — Literary and Musical. [ARTICLE]

Literary and Musical.

Detroit Free Press. His hair was long and flowing and it would have been difficult to say whether he was a poet or musician, at first blush. After blushing several times, however, the casual observer would have about concluded from the air about him that he was a musician. Somehow, the air is more distinctly defined in music than it is in poetry, anyhow. The young woman in the case was clearly literary. Her hair was in a slump and her cuffs looked as if they ought to have the hose turned on them. “Have you," she asked, after they had been talking some time, ‘‘have you read ‘Tftlby?’ ” “I beg your pardon?” he replied, starting as if the name was not entirely unfamiliar. “I said,” she repeated, “have you read ‘Trilby?’” “Oh, ah, h’m,” he hesitated, “well, no, I haven’t. You see I have been so very busy learning ‘Sweet Marie’ for my approaching recital that I really have not had time to read much recently." And the conversation happily continued.