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I read Seasoned
Wood3 up on the Island4 this summer, and I was more than glad to have a thoughtful
book in a place where I had time to think. I particularly enjoyed Aunt Lavinia, and
Miss
Peck! You will laugh at me, but I to me it is thrilling to see a person some so completely brought across with so little
introduction. I say person, not 2not a character. She set me
thinking how different persons and characters are. She isn't made or fashioned at
all—she simply is. And how strongly one feels her! Her
actual presence, I mean. And I love her laconic inscriptions—which are so like her,
though I can't for the life of me tell why. Mr. Hulme is awfully good, but I begin
to shrink from things as sad as that—from the fine people who get a 3a heard break, I mean. Such a very hard break! I
wonder why you gave him your father5's middle
name. Your father wasn't a bit like that. He was much more rugged and sturdy, and
had a twinkle in his eye, which I do not find in Principal Hulme's. My dear,
teachers ought not to be as consciencious at that—youngsters don't deserve it. And anyhow the best we get we get for
ourselves, and our teachers 4 can't help us much—except
very, very indirectly.
Concerning the state of the world we have no call to speak. I am reading my Michelet6's Histoire de
France7, and Guizot8's at the same
time. I am still in Le Moyen age9, and it's diverting
to see how history repeats itself. I get Guizot mixed up with Walter Lippmann10. If only gasoline had continued to
slumber in depths with prehistoric A remains where
it belongs, we'd be no worse off than human tribes and races have always been.