"If you must read novels," he would say, "read Dickens.

Nothing to offend the youngest among us--fine breezy stuff with an optimism that does you good and people you get to know and be fond of.

By Jove, I can still cry over Little Nell and am not ashamed of it." He had the heartiest contempt for "wasters" and "failures," and he was afraid there were a great many in the world.

"Give me a man who is a man," he would say, "a man who can hit a ball for six, run ten miles before breakfast and take his knocks with the best of them.

Wasn't it Browning who said, "'God's in His heaven, All's right with the world.' Browning was a great teacher--after Tennyson, one of our greatest.