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at this moment that very nice boy is dying — for Thania they say is quite convalescent-

I have been back in Boston for the last three weeks still at work at the library – It is practically done, and the scaffoldings ought to come down soon – one can’t until then judge of the whole effect - but I am hopeful -

You will think me prejudiced and obstinate, but I have found it very hard work to read the Brook Kerith - through the first half of it I felt as if I was trudging through deep sand – and, as usual, there was something on every page that revolted me - this time by its silliness rather than anything else – Then came the part about the crucifixion and the story on Joseph of Arimathea's home which I thought very poor, to drop down again to hopeless dullness. Oh the term pastoral, and the homilies! and the absence of any identity between [[?]] before and after his death – and the patronizing view he takes of his past career when he has become an absolute dolt and looks upon his past “crime”.

If the book has come up to your

Transcription Notes:
The Brook Kerith - book written by George Moore