Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1903 — A Personal Knowledge. [ARTICLE]

A Personal Knowledge.

Howard Bell, the publisher, was being shaved the other day. “Do you like James Lane Allen’s new hook?”, asked Iris barber, striving for an appropriate subject of conversation. “Why, yes," said the publisher; “hut Just now I am interested in a book by William Dean Howells. Do you read him?”

“No,” replied the barber; “never heard of him.” • “What, never hoard of Mr. HowcJsl Why, he surely is better known than Mr. Allen.” “That may lie, sir; but you see, I shave Mr. Allen.”