It is not always easy to pass final judgment, or to say who will
or will not become famous. The nestling’s first awkward attempts
to use its wings seem to contain no presage of the warbling
flight that will come hereafter. Once, at a literary banquet,
Aldrich reminded Dr. Holmes that he had declared he could see no
poetic promise in some of Aldrich’s youthful verses that were
submitted to him.--New Orleans _Times-Democrat_.
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