The Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, of March 8, devoted a page, under an especially engraved heading, to the Author's Convention held in that city. It says:—
"In round numbers, one hundred and fifty manuscripts have been sent to the management of the Wisconsin Authors' Convention, which opens at the Ethical Building Tuesday at ten o'clock. About seventy-five professional and amateur authors of seven states have contributed, and all the production will be read at the convention by local elocutionists during the three days of its continuance. Last Sunday the Sentinel printed an instalment of the papers submitted, including some of the average pieces. To-day's instalment includes some of the best. It is expected that the Convention will cause an intellectual furore, proving a further stimulus to literature, which has not hitherto, however, been by any means neglected by the people of the Badger state."
Among the articles selected by the Sentinel as the best, is the following: —
