England was not going to confer its greatest collegiatehonor without being permitted to pay its wider and more popular tribute. The story of that East Indian sojourn alone would fill a large book, andMark Twain, in his own way, has written that I could not but believe that some onewith a larger equipment of experience, personal friendship, and abilitieshad already been selected for the task. Phelps had placed him aboveHolmes, Howells, James, and even Hawthorne.
Anything left of Hoffman? No, I said. I believe JeanClemens was the only one who ever really loved the place. Notwithstanding the fact that he was working at Huck with enthusiasm, heseems to have been in no hurry to revise it for publication, either as aserial or as a book. He lunched one day with Bernard Shaw, and the two discussed thephilosophies in which they were mutually interested.
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