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As an acquaintance and friend of the former Chief Justice, permit me to say that he was not a Confederate Veteran, but an Illinois Copperhead- and a bitter one at that, but he never entered the Rebel Army ; also he was not a Roman Catholic, he and his family were...
*Not to be confused with Lytton Strachey, his 45-year-old cousin, likewise a famed essayist, author of Queen Victoria, Eminent Victorians.
That any man could go to Paris and purchase 98 original bronzes by a sculptor who ranks in the very thin and isolated company of the world's greatest artists, appears incredible-would be impossible, if it were not that Rodin, all his life, created images in stone as...
The zeal shown by these eminent gentlemen for conforming to the truth is very laudable, but the surprising thing of course is that this zeal has been so long in manifesting itself. Why was not the word removed from the marriage service long ago? It became obsolete when the caveman...
In the first place, a man he had exiled to Chile early in September had the affrontery to return. This man was the eminent South American physician, Jose Gabino Villanueva, President-Elect of Bolivia, who, on the eve of inauguration, refused to do Saavedra's bidding and was therefore...