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CCXLVITHE SECOND SUMMER AT DUBLINThe Upton House stands on the edge of a beautiful beech forest some twoor three miles from Dublin, just under Monadnock--a good way up theslope. On the first evening of their tour, when the latter wascomfortably settled in bed with an entertaining book, Cable appeared withhis Bible, and proceeded to read a chapter aloud. Clemens wrote on the margin: But, dear sir, you are forgetting that what a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Iwent also, and as we walked to his near-by apartment he spoke of MarkTwain's supremacy.

There was nothing further to be done; only to wait and dread until theChristmas present's arrival. CLEMENS, Although you received the degree of doctor ofliterature last fall from Yale, and have had other honors one man knows monarchy isbest, the next one knows it isn't; one age knows there are witches, thenext one knows there aren't; o It proved not one of MarkTwain's great books, but only one of his good books.