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5 clear and sufficient explanation, only one is inclined to talk over and discuss such interesting matters at leisure.
When your second volume appears I hope it may reveal as fully as can be the secret of how you acquired your literary style.
There are passages in some of your earlier books that I have read repeatedly and always with the same pleasure; they never
seem to lose their freshness. Such results can be accomplished, I suppose, only through a deep interest in and clear knowledge
of the subject matter and a real love of the art of writing, sometimes gathered lightly, but more often gained only