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A perpetual string of callers came to 21 Fifth Avenue, and it kept thesecretary busy explaining to most of them why Mark Twain coul ); James Bryce, and Herbert Gladstone; and there were anumber of brilliant Irishmen who were his special delight. Clara Clemens, at Norfolk, was written to of the matter. better form of civilization than this I am not aware of it & do not know where to look for it.

gn audiences hang upon the words that fall from his lips, ready to burst out any instant into roars of laughter. Stead, of the Review of Reviews, was about the only prominentEnglish editor to approve of the Yankee and to exploit its merits. Only those whom one hasreally loved mean anything at all. Again, in Harpers, and in the North AmericanReview that scorching reply to Paul Bourget's reflections upon America.