I must modify the statement that Robin Grey never lost a race. Once, the old Lexington track had been recently repaired and widened, and a bridge near the first quarter laid across a gully to supply the necessary width, and covered with dirt. Unfortunately Robin Grey took this side of the track, went, heels up, through the treacherous but unsuspected pitfall, threw his mount and himself to the ground, but was up at once and waited for his rider to spring again into the saddle, for Robin had the brains of a statesman. Even then he made sufficient speed to save his distance. Please don’t ever tell it, especially to “one of his kinfolks,” that anything on four feet ever beat Robin Grey! You mustn’t “insult his horses!” Sincerely for Trotwood, C. E. MERRILL. [Our authority, as may be seen from the chapter quoted, is Hon. Bailey Peyton, now deceased, than whom no more accurate authority on that subject existed. We are glad, however, to publish the above.—Ed.] * * * * * _He who jests is weak, and nothing kills greatness like humor._ With Our Writers The South’s Need for a Magazine of Its Own. Editor Trotwood’s: While New York and the East may be the natural publishing place for American magazines, it should not be forgotten that the South has within itself many important problems peculiar to itself. If one should start from the Potomac and travel southwest two thousand miles, barring mountainous sections, he would find, generally speaking, less difference in people, customs, and institutions than he would be going one or two hundred miles north from that river. Coupled with this fact, the following story may not be without significance: A Northerner who had moved South noticed that his new neighbors had what struck him as being a rather unsatisfactory method of doing a certain thing. So he wrote an article suggesting another method and sent it to a local publication. The editor returned the article, pronouncing what it proposed to be “impracticable and visionary.” The writer then sent the article to a Northern publication, at the same time asking if what it proposed was impracticable or visionary. It was again returned, but the returner stated that, so far from proposing anything impracticable or visionary, the trouble lay in the opposite direction. He said that what was proposed had been in successful operation so long that it would be useless and tiresome reading.