Knew Himself Best.
The Rev. John Watson, who has written several successful books under the nom de plume of "Ian Maclaren," recently visited this country—his home is in Liverpool, England—where he met with wonderful success on a lecture tour. Just before departing for his home he met a New York editor who was a class-mate of his at school years ago in Edinburgh, Scotland. Calling him familiarly by his first name, as of old, Dr. Watson, in response to congratulations, said: "I am glad this success did not come to me when I was young. Why, Dave, if this had happened when I was twenty-one, it would have turned my head, and I should have thought myself a very great man! But now I know better."