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have always been prejudiced against Biblical 

 names. Like the poet Swinburne, I can truly 

 say that 



" I shall never again be friends \\dth Moses, 

 I shall hate Susannah my whole life long \" 



And yet many of the people who have been most 

 kind and helpful to me, who have lent me their 

 money on note of hand alone, and whom I can 

 never hope to repay, have been called by such 

 names as Isaac or Reuben. 



Finally, let us consider the name of Henry. 

 In the princely Prussian family of Reuss it is 

 the custom for every single male member to be 

 named Henry. At Christmas-time, when they 

 are all assembled round the Yule-log, and the 

 grandmother exclaims : " Good heavens ! if I 

 haven't forgotten my spectacles again ! Henry, 

 do be a dear and run upstairs to my bedroom, 

 and see if you can find them. If they aren't on 

 the table or under the sofa they must be in the 

 window; or perhaps they aren't there at all" — 

 it is then a delightful and moving sight to watch 

 no less than seventy-six persons, their ages 

 ranging from three to ninety-two, spring to 

 their feet and surge towards the staircase, a 

 serried mass of Henries. Now it would be 

 obviously impossible for any relative of the 

 Reusses to love the whole family, individually 



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