Her publishers having announced that Ellen Glasgow has “gone into leather,” Keith Preston explains that going into leather is “like receiving the accolade, taking the veil, or joining the American Academy of Arts and Letters.” And we suppose that when one goes into ooze leather, or is padded, one may be said to be fini.

A FEW MORE “BEST BAD LINES.”

Why leapest thou,

Why leapest thou

So high within my breast?

Oh, stay thee now,

Oh, stay thee now,

Thou little bounder, rest!

Something had happened wrong about a bill,

Which was not drawn with true mercantile skill,