e gatable . I can recall but one elderly man??Dunn  and full of good sense, an old friend of  establis. One evening I found ed.

    been round to ask my advice. ould I t a ed ;e determined to do it?quot; I asked ;Quite.quot; quot;ell,quot; I said, quot;in t case I refuse to give you any advice.quot; Mrs. B... iful talented ened to en obeyed ly because e plainly not upon ts. e mig ground of quarrel, but t seemed more important t manner and speec time, in victory. And besides, if ainly did, e it  did not move us to reverence.

    Once I found  returned from some art congress in Liverpool or in Mancer. tion Armyism of art, , amp; gave a grotesque description of some city councillor urner. ed all t Ruskin praised, turner, and finding ty councillor t day on te t Pre?Rape. taring disconsolately upon terrified us also, and certainly I did not dare, and I to speak our admiration for book or picture  ance, and no man among us could do good work, or s, and lack his praise.

    I can remember meeting of a Sunday nighe Golden Age,

    Barry Pain, no, R. A. M. Stevenson, art critic and a famous talker, George ynder on a cabinet minister and Irisary, and Oscar ilde, en older t. But faces and names are vague to me and,  but once may rise clearly before me, a face met on many a Sunday imes, I t I never met epniak, t,  t go more t is too exing.  t out of us all, because

    could neitened, nor curned aside. it is tion of ure being ever in my sigually forging so use; and certainly I al of C..., a fine classical scle man, as our chief swordsman and bravo.

    ts, afterional Observer, te articles and revieorious for savage ; and years afterwards wional Observer

    y, I met hink very poor.

    Nobody ory t o be kept dipped in poppy? juice t it mig go about killing people on its o. I e my first good lyrics and tolerable essays for tional Obsever and as I al a line or a stanza and ing in one of ed by my belief t e Kipling t flood of popularity. At first, indeed, I en and t t ot, and only began investigation ics??epigrams, arcicle upon Paris fas upon opium by an Egyptian Pas compelled to full conformity for verse is plainly stubborn; and in prose, t I migable opinions, I e not g or fairy stories, picked up from my mot at Rosses Point, and  I must needs mix a palette fitted to my subject matter. But if o   ?dome and te better te in some letter praising Co anot a fine tten by one of my lads.