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influences in which he was reared, his 



tism, Iii- pugnacity, his plain speaking, his tcn- 



-, In- ivl'mcim-iit, tin- lircadlh of thought 



resulting from foreign residence ai'd siicce--. Ins 



modesty, his hopefulness, ln> posimiMii, hi- i-le- 



f diction all, in fac'., that went 



year hut a nbiniflc irrnin of iho Hand in Tiim-V hour- 

 glatw and tin- incriptioQ of Egypt ttd .\M-vriu mod- 

 ern ait yi-nt-rduy' neHpuiH;r. r'aiu-y llutter> .\er 

 tliewe vairtle wantfit like a butterfly blown <n,' 

 and tindi. no t'<Nthld. It \* true that, if MC may put 

 ait much faith in heredity u* w-nm reaitonable to 

 man) of us, we are all in some trunsccndcntul 



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FAG-SIMILE OF A SONNET BY JAMES Rl'SSKLL LOWKLL. 



to make up the personality whose influence is 

 not. to die with his departure. In discussing at 

 his opi'uiiiLT. i IK- curious blending of disn^pi-ct 

 and iwi'ivnce for old things thut characterizes 

 the American of to-day, he says: 



If the tablets unearthed and dcci|>lifrfd by peolopry 

 have forced us to push back im-uk-ulubly thf birth- 

 day of man, they have in like proportion impover- 



ished his recorded annuls, making i-vi-n the 1'latonic 

 the coevals of primitive man, and I'ytliairorus may 

 well have been present in Kllphorvus at tile >'u-u.'i "f 

 Try. . . . Kven tlie landscape smnetimes bewitches 

 us by this glamour <>t' the jiast. and the ^ret-n i'jisturc> 

 and golden slopes uf Kllirlalld are sweeter lx>Hl to the 

 outward and to tlie inward eye that the hand of man 

 lias immemorially cared for and caressed them. . . . 

 I never felt the working of this spell so acutely as in 



