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SALA. All reading Britain has, in spirit, during the past week been in that I'-iphton bedchamber I G. A. SALA. where the bril- liant journalist, George Augus- tus Sala, has has been lying in mortal com- bab with the destroyer of mankind. Sala is a household word wherever the English tongue is spoken, since no roan has contributed more abun- dantly to the mental delecta- tion of his countrym en thanG.A.S. He I is the beat known personality on the English Press, and ho is as popular in America and Australia as in Great Britain. The journalist who writes English caters for the largest circle of readers in the world, yet, although Sala is English of the English fcy predilection, his name tells one that he is of Italian origin, and he was never happier than in discussing the Latin races, their methods of cooking, and their social habits generally. For nearly a quarter of a century, with a few brief intermissions, he contributed to the Daily Telegraph that marvellous social article which five time a week made the pages of the largest circulation scintillate, and herein lay one of the great griefs of his life. I have given," said he in conversation one day, all tho best of my brain to anonymous ephemeral work, which, no matter bow good, leaves nothing behind it to re- member mo by. I have written some 7,000 leading articles, many of them labouriously constructed, carefully thought out, and (thanks to my. common- place books filled with the compilations of many years) also crammed with information. In those articles were the plots of five hundred novels, u. while the actual writing would suffice for 100 three-volamers, yet when I am dead the world will only remember me as the unknown writer of some smart articles and a very weak romance, though on that head few would agree with him, as "Twice round the Clock is a very clever, and far from tedious novel, indeed it would be im- possible for Sala to be tedious. Two months ago nis splendid library, furniture, and effects were sold off, much of it, as is usual at sales, fetching rubbish prices, although some of the articles knocked down by the auctioneer may be pro- nounced as well-nigh historical. This parting with the lares and penates was not calculated to improve his health, and he has not heen himself since.

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SIR CHARLES DILKE IN THE RHONDDA.I

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