It is of that class,beyond doubt. n occasional joke thrown in), and he a good deal more often talks upon such subjects than upon the other kind. I do not know whether the entertainment was long or short. On the fly-leaf ofthe first volume he wroteThis, & Casanova & Pepys, set in parallel columns, could afford a goodcoup d'oeil of French & English high life of that epoch.
Nor were the reviewers enthusiastic, as a rule. And when the man draws them well why do they stir my admiration? Because they are me--I recognize myself. I'll get you another mark. When anewspaper correspondent asked him for an expression of opinion on thesubject he wrote: Russia was on the highroad to emancipation from an insane and intolerable slavery.
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