The present writer may be pardoned for recalling the fact
that it was his goad fortune to receive and secure acceptance for Mr. Monypeany's first contribution to the London press— an article sent to the Spectator in the early "'nineties," when he was still an undergraduate at Balliol. The facts are as follows. It was the present writer's duty to read the letters and articles submitted from outside, but on the occasion in question he was charged by the Editor, as he now so often charges his colleague entreated with the same duty, under no circumstances to take any new matter owing to the congestion of " accepted " articles. When, however, he read the con- tribution sent with the card of "W. F. Monypenny," be refused to obey his instructions, and informed his chief that he would not take the responsibility of rejecting such admirable copy. The article was published next week, for the joint editors, when they read Mr. lifonypenny's paper, became as enthusiastic as their junior colleague.
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