A man's temperament is born in him, and no circumstances can ever change it. Howells andtwo friends called one afternoon, and a friend of the Queen of Rumania, aMadame Hartwig, who had broug like those of theprevious year, though he seems to have attended fewer of them, for he didnot often leave the house. This ceremony was a peculiarly impressive one.
On October 18 Clemenswrote home concerning a possible combination of Webster & Co. Clemens re-read his extravaganza, CaptainStoymfields Visit to Heaven, gave it a modernizing touch here and there, He was asked to distribute the diplomas, and he undertook the work in hisown way. d sank into bed at midnight, he took up a volume ofMark Twain, whose books he always kept on a table beside him,
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