Gilder said that the Century Editors had endeavored to get Grant tocontribute to their war series, but that not He drifted to Macaulay again, and spoke of KingJames's plot to assassinate William II. The Mysterious Stranger in one of itsforms I thought might be satisfactorily concluded, and he admitted thathe could probably end it without much labor. Those are good and kindly men, those missionaries, but they are a measureless satire upon their Master.
He quoted a letter from a schoolmaster in the Philippines who thought thepassage beautiful with the exception of the curious creature which sleptupon motionless wings. veloped an intense, evenif a less permanent, interest in another matter which was to benefit thespecies. that came flocking through my skull not one would hold still long enough for me to examine it and size it up. At the close of one splendid scene he said, quiteearnestly, That is about the best play that Lord Bacon ever wrote.
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