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progressed, greater geniality prevailed, and, finally, when the 

 party adjourned to the beautiful garden, all barriers broke 

 down at the recital of some amusing incidents connected with 

 the recent visit of the Armenian patriarchs and their numerous 

 attendants. These guests had just gone, apparently in the full 

 odor of sanctity. Their customs, not being in accordance with 

 Western habits, had necessitated a thorough house-cleaning, 

 the taking down of bedsteads and the taking up of carpets. 

 This element of confusion, together with the previous efforts 

 to entertain their guests from the gorgeous East, had reduced 

 the master and his wife to a state verging on a nervous collapse. 

 The next visit to Trinity was more auspicious. Nothing could 

 have exceeded the kindness of the famous scholar, and finally, 

 when Mr. Shaler took his leave of Cambridge, he carried away 

 with him various gifts as souvenirs of the great college, en- 

 graved portraits of Newton and Milton as well as facsimiles of 

 their writings, these showing corrections multitudinous enough 

 to encourage even a Harvard freshman. Besides their potential 

 use, there was another field, remote from the poet's usual 

 wanderings, wherein practical help from him was won. In 

 reply to some disparaging remarks made by one of the dons 

 about Yankee pies, he insisting that the fruit pie was alien to 

 England, Mr. Shaler proved by Milton's own statement that at 

 the time of the plague, among other edibles, apple pies were 

 left at Trinity Gate for the students living there in a state of 

 quarantine. 



At a memorial meeting held in honor of the late Woodwardian 

 Professor of Geology the kindly, witty, and vivacious Adam 

 Sedgwick, a man of the same type as Mr. Shaler himself there 

 was a notable assemblage of men gathered on the platform. 

 Among these were the old Earl of Powis, the Duke of Argyle, 

 the Duke of Devonshire, and others distinguished for high so- 

 cial position, statesmanship, and learning. Mr. Shaler watched 

 closely the faces of this picked lot of Englishmen, seeking to note 

 what changes the race might have undergone by being trans- 



