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MacAlister,came in for a smoke with him. To MacAlister he wrote: We were very lucky to get this big house furnished. I wish to tell them about the City of the Sea--that mostvenerable, most brilliant, and proudest Republic the world has ever seen. Perhaps, I said, Shakespeare was the Belasoo of that day--themanagerial genius, unable to write plays himself, but with the supremegift of making effective drama from the plays of others.

earlierautobiographical chapters, begun with Redpath in 1885, and continuedlater in Vienna and at the Villa Quarto. knesses which had led totheir downfall, the separation from Susy, and this final incredibledisaster. Clemens recalled his Greeting for that reason and for one other, which he expressed thus: The list of greeters t Names of periodicals are abbreviated.