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Irving Bacheller - "D'Ri and I"

Emerson Hough - "The Purchase Price"

Louis P. Benezet - "The World War and What was Behind It"

Henry Van Dyke - "The Americanism of Washington"

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Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861 by Various

V >> Various >> Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861




Dr. Holmes has proved his title to be a wit in the earlier and higher
sense of the word, when it meant a man of genius, a player upon thoughts
rather than words. The variety, freshness, and strength which he has
lent to our pages during the last three years seem to demand of us that
we should add our expression of admiration to that which his countrymen
have been so eager and unanimous in rendering.




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