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Of all the men I have known, Samuel Clemens (JMark Twain) was the farthest from a. snob, though he vahied recognition, acd l-k=d th-o llattery of ilia fashionable. S-\ur when it came in his way. Ho wovJd net go out of his way for it, but liio all noble and brill.aut men he loved the minds of women, their wit, their agile cleverness, their sensitive percept.on, their humorous appreciation, the .-auey things they would say, and their pretty temerarious defiances. He had, of course, the keenest sense of what was truly dignified and truiy undign.hed in people, but ho was not really interested in what we call society affairs; they scarcely existed for him;, though his books witness how he abhorred the dreadful fools who, through some chance of birth or wealth, hold themselves different from other ir_n. Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, HoSnes I know them all; sages, poets, seers, critics, humorists; they were like each other and like other literary men, but Clements -was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature—W. L. Howells, in "Harper's Monthly."