Du Maurier's Wit

A gentleman, himself a very witty man, remarked the other day, in commenting upon Du Marier's drawings Ín Punch, that the legenda printed below them were more comical than the drawlugs themselves. We are now told that these pungent condensations eoet thelr author a great deal of thought and labor, and the New York Evenlng Post advances tho view that they were a preparatlon for that phenomenal buccess in novel writing Into whlch Du Maurier seemed to drop wlth a perplex)ng spontanelty. One of the flrm of Harper & Broa, tells an anecdote relatlng to hls connection wlth thelr magazine whlch 13 worth repeating. When he was engaged to furniah the montaly drawings whlch appeared at the end of each nwnber of this perlodical, the proprletors of Punch wrote hlm that they understood his services were thelrs exclusively, to whlch he returned thi brief note: "Dear : Man cannot live by Punch alone. Yours, G. Du M." It ts not stated how long he was occuplo hi concocting thls, but it is very elevar.