The Arena, by Various

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Title: The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891

Author: Various

Editor: B.O. Flower

Release Date: October 22, 2006 [EBook #19603]

Language: English

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THE ARENA.

No. XX.

JULY, 1891.

[Illustration: (signed) Very truly Yours, Oliver Wendell Holmes.]

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL. D.

To the year 1809, the world is very much indebted for a band of notable recruits to the ranks of literature and science, statesmanship and military renown. One need mention only a few names to establish that fact, and grand names they are, for the list includes Darwin, Gladstone, Erastus Wilson, John Hill Burton, Manteuffel, Count Beust, Lord Houghton, Alfred Tennyson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Each of these has played an important part in the world's history, and impressed the age with a genius that marks an epoch in the great department of human activity and progress. The year was pretty well advanced, and the month of August had reached its 29th day, when the wife of Dr. Abiel Holmes presented the author of "Th

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