Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy

Book Excerpt: ...XVI THE FIRST NEWSPAPER XVII IN THE GOOD TIME AFTER THE WAR I.--Spoof. A Thousand-Guinea Novel. New! Fascinating! Perplexing!CHAPTER IReaders are requested to note that this novel has taken our special prize of a cheque for a thousand guineas. This alone guarantees for all intelligent readers a palpitating interest in every line of it. Among the thousands of MSS. which reached us--many of them coming in carts early in the morning, and moving in a dense phalanx, indistinguis...