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Next morning, still acting secretly, dreading, in his peculiar modesty, possible over-praise from those who might be prejudiced in his favor, he despatched his precious bundle to Petersburg, addressed to his old critics and masters, Zaremba and Anton Rubinstein. With it went a brief note requesting, humbly, that they examine it and send him their opinion of its worth.

"In a woman's argument," I observed, "equality of the sexes invariably does mean the superiority of woman." "That is very curious," added the Philosopher. "As you say, a woman never can be logical." "Are all men logical?" demanded the Girton Girl. "As a class," replied the Minor Poet, "yes." "What woman suffers from," said the Philosopher, "is over-praise. It has turned her head."

When he showed us scenery he loved, it made him melancholy to have us speak of scenery elsewhere that was finer. And yet there was this delicacy about him, that he never over-praised what he brought us to see, any more than one would over-praise a friend of whom he was fond.

The publication of his new volume containing the Winifred lyrics had served to colour these months of intolerable delay. Even the reaction of the critics against his poetry, that conventional revolt against every second volume, that parrot cry of over-praise from the very throats that had praised him, though it pained and perplexed him, was perhaps really helpful.

When he showed us scenery he loved, it made him melancholy to have us speak of scenery elsewhere that was finer. And yet there was this delicacy about him, that he never over-praised what he brought us to see, any more than one would over-praise a friend of whom he was fond.

Brownell calls him, he lacks formal sense and the diffuseness and vagueness of his supreme effort the Lincoln burial hymn serves as a nebulous buffer between sheer over-praise and serious criticism. He contrives atmosphere with facility, and can achieve magical pictures of the sea and the "mad naked summer night." His early poem, Walt Whitman, is for me his most spontaneous offering.

Nevertheless, this person will not recede from a perhaps too impulsive offer of one unit of gold, three pieces of silver, and four and a half brass cash," my object, of course, being that after the mutual recrimination of disparagement and over-praise we should in the length of an hour or two reach a becoming compromise in the middle distance.

A little over-praise by a great deal of underrating a gleam of good fortune by a night of misery." I now saw Wrexham Church at about the distance of three miles, and presently entered a lane which led gently down from the hills, which were the same heights I had seen on my right hand, some months previously, on my way from Wrexham to Rhiwabon.

But that miserable article of Schumann deplorable gush that has been tolerated, nay, admired, only because it is Schumann's the evil influence of the pseudo-classicism of Mendelssohn and his followers, the preposterous over-praise of Hanslick, these things drove Brahms into the mistake never made by the really able men.

'I don't see that it was painful at all. What did you think of my speech? 'The first one or the second? 'Both, if you like. I meant the first. 'You told the story very well. 'You'll never spoil me by over-praise. Adela was silent. 'About this, he resumed, tapping the note which he still held. 'I don't think you need go there very often. It seems to me you don't get much good from them.