I was surprised to see how frail and old he looked. Joan of Arc, by Janet Tuckey, wasapparently the first book he read with the definite idea of study, forthis Clemens did in reality give up walking the floor,and for the time, at least, found happier diversions. It wassupposed to be true, yet Clemens seemed to think it too improbable forliterature and laid it away for a number of years.
He wanted me to read Jude, he said, sowe could talk about it. Has he heroes & heroines whom the reader admires--admires and knows why? 7. Delivered at an Army and Navy Club dinner in New YorkCity)Lately a great and honored author, Matthew Arnold, has been finding faultwith General Grant's English. It not infrequently happened, therefore, when he recountedsome incident, even the most recent, that history took on fresh andstartling forms.
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