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Bohemian Society
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Title: Bohemian Society
Author: Lydia Leavitt
Release Date: December 4, 2005 [EBook #17220]
Language: English
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BOHEMIAN SOCIETY.
BY
LYDIA LEAVITT.
BROCKVILLE:
TIMES PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY.
BOHEMIAN SOCIETY.
"She was not fair, Nor beautiful,--those words express her not, But, O, her looks had something excellent That wants a name."
In a country house near the city of B---- lived a lady of cultivated mind and manners, "a noble woman nobly planned." Well read and familiar with such writers as Tyndall, Huxley, Spencer and other scientists, and being rather cosmopolitan in tastes, liked to gather about her, people who had--as she termed it--ideas. At times there was a strange medley of artists, authors, religious enthusiasts, spiritualists, philanthropists and even philosophers. On the evening of which I write there was the usual peculiar gathering,