William Crary Brownell 



qualities which naturally and unaf- 

 fectedly produced an imaginative mas- 

 terpiece in a field merely collateral to 

 the field of its author's specific work 

 in life, should be the same qualities 

 which attached and endeared him in 

 an extraordinary degree to the varied 

 and appreciative but not unexacting 

 membership of the Century Associa- 

 tion. It is indirectly a demonstration 

 that he gave us his best, and what 

 that was has, since his untimely death, 

 been already too poignantly missed 

 ever to be forgotten. 



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