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What luck it was to find you! There are hundreds of artists who could illustrate any other book of mine, but there was only one who could illustrate this one. Has she been out to-day? CL. Clemens, in fact, felt relieved, now that the worst had come, and wrotebright letters home. The date of another is 1463--he could have met Columbus & he knew the magnificent Lorenzo, of course.

He hadput in the day writing the beautiful poem, In Memoriam, a strain lofty,tender, and dirge-like-liquidly musical, though irregular in form. I said, Yes, Mr. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE (Vienna)--N. It takes a pretty well-regulated abstemious critic to live ninety years.