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t, however, quite exhausting the subject. Doctor Holmes kept a rattlesnake in a cage for a pet, anciate as the high priests of mortality? Doctor Holmes's Elsie Venner was one of the offshoots ofnow they are sick until they are dead. If Doctor Holmes had taken this as his text, and written a ht as a fencer's thrust. But Elsie Venner and Holmes's second novel, The Guardian Angel, are, to usauspices. This was a pretty bold stroke, but Holmes evidently liked it. He said to the committee t speech at a public dinner. In this critique Holmes's poetry was summed up under the heading of versified misfortunes ; and Holmes himself wrote to Mrs. Stowe that the object of the writer was evidecertainly contemptible to treat a man like Doctor Holmes in this manner,--one so universally kind t and then fortunately added: Now, there is Doctor Holmes, I think he shows his customary good judgmage of seventy his alma mater conferred on Doctor Holmes an Ll.D., and this was followed soon after[10 more...]