27 MAY 1899, page 9

Mark Twain's Promised Biographies.

AT ARK TWAIN, who has been residing so long in Vienna, is at length taking leave of that city, much to the regret of the literary circles of the Austrian capital. He has enjoyed......

Dictionaries.

"A LEXICOGRAPHER," says Dr. Johnson in one of his wittiest definitions, "is a maker of dictionaries, a harmless drudge." The definition is a jest, obviously and consciously......