New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-06-07

7-a day when he said How did YOU come to steal
olive Wendell Holiness dedication and put It in
MAD q careless and inconsequential answer;
f7- s.--r-e5 he was joking But he assured me
that he -.-5 IN earnest. He said:
-J'-. -..- discussing the question OF whether YOU
STOLE T. -- Ei- for that Is question that can be
settled Il -- -~s- book store We come to,-I am only
asking -.. how YOU came to steal It, tOr that IS
v-te-e --- curiosity IS localized.
--s-- acc1---n0date him with this lrlfo--1la-
non rs b. in i n stock. could have made oath
--- had r.- stolen ANYTHING. therefore my vanity
was -- ---- nor my spirit troubled. At bottom 1
5---.-a- thar he had mistaken another book Tor
---. was now getting himself into Jlntenabe
-r-e and --l-l---lg sorrow for himself and triumph
t--e T-- entered bookstore, and he asked for
The I--.cer-s Abroad" and f7r the dainty little
f.-,a--- -- Il edition Of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
poems lie .-ened the books, exposed their dedlca-
Red -ae L i plain thai the author Of the
Vas very much ashamed, and unspeakably
g5-7n-E.z We continued our walk; but was not
able o. throw any CLEAN OF light upon that original
Question c.. his I could not remember ever having
seen D. Holiness dedication. I knew the poems;
bur the -et .carl1r was new 70 ne
1-r-.- YET hold Of the key to that secret until
i ---- at-e-ya-d Then Il came II q curious
v-s- an yer u was q natural way; for the natural
7r- --.- led v nature and the construction OF the
human --- l-- the discovery OF q forgotten event
Is r. .. - another forgotten event Tor It's resur-
I-a...-e5 a letter from the Rev. DR.. Rising, who
had been rector u the Episcopal church II Virginia
CIV II --- time n which letter Dr.. Rising made
reference e certain things which had happened TO
Us 70 Sandwich Islands SIX years before among
thing. r. made casual mention OF the Honolulu
r--e --=--- n the matter OF literature. At first
I E.E see the bearing Of the remark Il called
rg-r --- mind. But presently II dld-wlth d
tzs-
The. was hu- one book II NJ. hlrChhOis hotel,
and Was the -l-s- volume OF Dr.. Holiness blue
and ----es I had had a iortnlghts chance 70
Ger .-cair-ei with It's contents; Tor | had
--55.- md The big island lHawal) on horseback
and .--t-- back many saddle bOlls that Il
-aa-. .ae- duty on them i would have bank
-----. .-. - pay Il. They kept me II my room,
UNI. md n persistent pam, Tor TWO weeks
v--- -.---arv but cigars and the little volume
n -... I course ! read them almost constantly;
--. .=-- from beginning 70 end. then read them
t----- then began n the middle and read them
both -.s then read them wrong end nrst and
upside II q word / read the book 70 rags,
and INFINITELY grateful u the hand that wrote It
Hen. have an exhibition Of what repetition can
d. when persisted II daily and hourly over con
s-e- ---- II time where one Is merely reading
t9- a--~-enr. without thought or intention OF
I-=-.-- memory that which IS read i Is {
r~.. r.--I n the course Of years drles all the
1c- familiar verse Of Scripture, leaving
moths -- sapess husk behind. In that case
70 a. -- know the origin OF the husk; but IN the
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