. The Argonaut . wise and witty reflections on the realitiesof existence.—Boston Beacon, «9Me ADAM JOHNSTONES SON BY also, F. MARION CRAWFORD Author of Saracinesca, ^FTetro Gbisleri,Don Orsino, Casa Braccio, etc. With24 full-page illustrations by A. Clotb. UNIFORM EDITION OF Mr. F. MARION CRAWFORDS NOVELS 12mo. Cloth. Price Each. Katharine Lauderdale. Pietko Gkisleri. Marion Roman American Tale of a LonelvParish. Z0R0A5TER. Dr. Claudius. Mr. Isaacs. Children of thh King. I Don Orsino. A sequel
. The Argonaut . wise and witty reflections on the realitiesof existence.—Boston Beacon, «9Me ADAM JOHNSTONES SON BY also, F. MARION CRAWFORD Author of Saracinesca, ^FTetro Gbisleri,Don Orsino, Casa Braccio, etc. With24 full-page illustrations by A. Clotb. UNIFORM EDITION OF Mr. F. MARION CRAWFORDS NOVELS 12mo. Cloth. Price Each. Katharine Lauderdale. Pietko Gkisleri. Marion Roman American Tale of a LonelvParish. Z0R0A5TER. Dr. Claudius. Mr. Isaacs. Children of thh King. I Don Orsino. A sequel to Saracinesca and Sant Three Witch of Cigarette - Makers Ilario. A sequel to the Leeward. The Macmillan Company 66 Fifth Avenue, JJew York. In every town where Swin. is known,The little Bear Calendar will he shown. All Booksellers. Dodge B. & S. Co., 112 Post Street, Publishers. 10 THE ARGONAUT. November 9, fm^1 At seventeen years <Ijage, having already givenevidence o( a rare and Vrecocious genius, Chatter-ton committed suicide. He felt his power, but hadnot yet measured it against the woro about had perpetrated one-fHf the greatest frauds inliterature—a fraud whichjj yroved his astonishinggenius—and known the tortures of a gnawing pov-erty and an unconquerable pride. He had the soulof a poet and the ambition of a leader of insignificance maddened him, the worlds in-difference was intolerable. Alone in his wretchedgarret, in a burst of despair, he destroyed hispapers and killed himself. When the door wasbroken open, the body of the famished boy wasfound stiff on the bed, and the floor from end toend was littered with scraps of torn paper. In thelast furious defiance of the fate that had mockedbim, he obliterated every trace of the genius towhich the world had refused recognition. He is one of the most consistently dramatic char-acters in fiction or his
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