...ly Shakespearean in quaintness and vigor) is from the memory of his childhood, and that he never in his life wrote down a sentence after hearing it. I had always imagined him with a note-book. In Paris Colonel Higginson said the best thing he did was to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower. The little pension which sheltered us was Victor Hugo's old house, and the salon, which opened into a very ple...