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...Clyburn twins' museum, whose chief exhibit was an emu's egg mistaken for a thunderbolt; Mr. Mellor, the eccentric Pre-Raphaelite painter at No. 5; the Tom-Sawyerish pranks of the Gurney children, whose fearsome governess wore a respirator over her mouth when she ventured outdoors, all lend variety to Author Mackenzie's reminiscences. The touching story of Vagabond William Cobb who lived & died in the attic of empty No. 25, and the final setting straight of his Aunt Adelaide's crippled Victorian romance are matters of a longer fibre that bind the scattered memories into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hereditary Environment | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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