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These books naturally "took" They invited noto look at and therefore particularly adapted to those

occasions when one ift to a friend Scarce a

center-table in the country but held at least one The beauty of it was

that the literary , and the books were their own

advertising bill-boards; for wherever they went they lay in conspicuous

places

Froe

shapes, wherein forgotten Gothic forled with forms that

never man saw before; and these also took So the circle widened, until

glass pottery and rugs were gathered into the potpourri of Mr Early's

genius

Finally he established his an to

feel the need of explaining things--chiefly hi

circle The Aspirant had covers of butcher's paper; and the necessity

for self-defense at last developed in Mr Early that literary style

which he had found it i

to say He grew a peculiar ability for self-glorification and for

slugging the other man Particularly caustic did his pen become in

respect to those, whether painters, musicians, poets, novelists or

reforreat mass of the public