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Clemens had not yet lost interest in the American policy in thePhilippines, and in his letters to Twichell he did not hesitate tocriticize tile President's attitude in this and related matters. It is still so in the vast solitudes of the Indian Ocean--17 days of heaven. Itsauthor lived long enough to see this change and to be comforted by it,for though the creative enthusiasm in his other books soon passed, hisglory in the tale of Joan never died. in the Villa Reale di Quarto, a fine oldItalian palace built by Cosimo more than four centuries ago.

General Sheridan's Memoirs were in preparation, and negotiations withWebster & Co. My room was only a little distanceaway, and Claude came for me. The Cranes are reading and loafing in the canvas- curtained summer-house, fifty yards away, on a higher (the highest) Jean Clemens had two natural endowments: the gift of justice and agenuine passion for all nature.