Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — Terrible Fate. [ARTICLE]

Terrible Fate.

There is something which will appeal to every American in the horror of a fate invoked upon Henry James, Sr., by his son, the novelist, and recorded in the letters of E. L, Goodcorded in the letters of E. L. Godkin. The young man had been worsted in argument, and exefaimed: “Then may your mashed potatoes always have lumps In them!”