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that know better how to treat them. The matter is 

 foreign to the man, and is not of him ; the manner is 

 the man himself." * 



" Le style, c'est 1'homme meme." Elsewhere he tells 

 us what true style is, but I quote from memory and 

 cannot be sure of the passage. " Le style," he says, " est 

 comme le bonheur ; il vient de la douceur de 1'ame." 

 Is it possible not to think of the following ? 

 " But whether there be prophecies they shall fail ; 

 whether there be tongues they shall cease ; whether 

 there be knowledge it shall vanish away .... and 

 now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three ; but 

 the greatest of these is charity ."t 



* ' Discours de Exception a rAcaclenrie Fran^aise.' 

 t 1 Cor. xiii. 8, 13. 



