The interest ot local admirers of dialect stories has been aroused by the advance fflnouncement of a now book by Mrs. E S. L. Thompson and Robert Maxwell Thompson, whose homes are not far from Lena, just west of Putnam county, in Clay county. 'Hie new book is “In the Land of the Banjo and th*' Fiddle.” which is spoken of as “a collctlon of stories and poem« of the lilt* of the old South among1 the servitors of the regime, which posses a unique charm, rhe book will be found of t lat delightful ami mysterious flavor which hovers about the land of the mocking bird, the magnolia and the myrtle—the land of rich voices, of music in the soul and the feet.” Mrs. Thompson has attained fame in literary and dramatic circles and has' many friends in this city.