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In the Archepiscopal Palace at Malines, Belgium, Mr. Hughes received from Cardinal Mercier a degree of Doctor of Laws from Louvain University, and said: "My visit to your country will leave a very deep impression on me."
"I hope a wrong impression of Arkansas won't get abroad," Mr. Caraway lamented, with the usual twinkle in his eye. "Honestly, we are a mild people. These things just happened to happen."
He said of himself while in America: "I'm not a literary man." Strangely enough, James Huneker got the same impression of him: "a man of the world, neither sailor nor novelist, just a simple-mannered gentleman whose welcome was sincere, whose glance was slightly veiled, far away at times...
Such a plan would seriously interfere with the work of farmers, those employed in shops, at the desk and counter, meaning an economic waste and giving a wrong impression and alarming war-sick of other nations.
Said John Farrar, Bookman editor: "The man who created the famous Brownies was one of the gentlest and quaintest people I have ever met. His whole life seemed to be tied up in the absurd and entertaining little creatures he had invented. Before you had known him very long, he...