Moreover the great battle of society, to crush wrong and elevate right, was never before so bravely fought, on so many fields, by so many people as to-day.

But because our lovers and heroes no longer brag to the world of their doings; no longer stand in the moonlight, and sing of their 'dering does,' the world assumes that the days of tourneys and guitars were the only days of true love and noble deeds.

Even our professed writers of romance join in the cry.

'Draw life as it is,' they say.

'We find nothing in it but mediocrity, selfishness, and money-loving.' By all means let us have truth in our novels, but there is truth and truth.
Most of New York's firemen presumably sat down at noon to-day to a dinner of corned-beef and cabbage.