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saying a good deal--she has reared me--she and Twichell together-- and what I am I owe to them. Henry James madehis first after-dinner speech there, for one thing--at least he claimedit was his first, though this is by the way. CCLIXLONDON SOCIAL HONORSWe may not detail all the story of that English visit; even the path ofglory leads to monotony at last. Clemens wrote: Surely such weeks as this must be very rare in this world: I had seen nothing

It was American in these fine qualities. Katie Leary, who had been Jean's nurse, once told how, as a little child,Jean had not been particularly interested in a picture of the Reading it, one canvisualize the author as a careering charger, with a bit in his teeth,trampling the poetry He finished the evening by reading a chapter from Carlyle's French Revolution--a fine pyrotechnic passage--the gathering at Versailles.