Stoddard's latest letter was from Douglas Sladdin an Australian author now in New York, who is getting a collection of younger American poets in an anthology. Stoddard was astonished with the statement Sladin made regarding him:"As an Australian, he is of course familiar with Stoddard's name which is better known there than any younger American except Bret Harte". Stoddard used to write for the Australian and the Victorian Review. Stoddard plans to leave soon for Nuremburg, then to Bonn where Davis Vail is to try again to pass the Harvard examination. From Bonn they go to Paris for the exposition. Last Sunday Stoddard saw a Passion Play in the Tryol, at a village more primitive than Oberammergau. He wishes Hudson, to secure for him a copy of Doctor Brownson's Essays on Modern Popular Literature when they come out. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 6pp. 8vo.