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...condition after the celebration of the previous year, does all she can to prevent him from attending. This leads to a quarrel, and she leaves the house to live with her uncle, Bolzau, whose home is in the suburbs. Meanwhile Scheffler's friend Hartwig, who is an intolerable talker, appears with his friend Dr. Steinkirch, for whom he wishes Scheffler to provide a lodging. But Scheffler, having just quarrelled with his wife, is in despair, and accompanied by Hartwig and Steinkirch he goes to Bolzau to ask his advice. Steinkirch falls in love with Bolzau's niece, Ludmilla, and manages...
Judge Holmes is best known to the general public by his book entitled "The Authorship of Shakespeare," in which he advocates the Baconian theory. He was a man of large and varied learning and a very interesting talker...
...auspices of the Folk-Lore Club which has provided several very interesting and instructive lectures, Professor Andrew F. Chamberlain of Clark University will lecture tonight in the Fogg Art Museum. His subject will be interesting and as Professor clark is an authority on folk-lore and an interesting talker, the lecture will be well worth attending...
...Curtis's home life in the country, which kept him constantly fresh and hopeful. His work went on wherever he was, and his study was a charmed retreat. In the leisure hours, his house and his heart were open with the most generous hospitality. He was a superlatively good talker, and he enjoyed talking, and the stream flowed on in his moments of relaxation with the same variety of reflection, of reminiscence and of suggestion, which characterizes the essays from the "Easy Chair," which for so many years charmed their hundreds of thousands of readers...
...good listener as well as a good talker. He seemed to expect some valuable contribution from every one, and each left him with a certain sense of added dignity from the conviction that Mr. Curtis had found his suggestions worthy of respectful consideration. Both in public and in private his attitude was that of a "sweet reasonableness...