that his act involved no violation
of privacy. He discovered that the
great man was reading a Greek play
with such relish and abandon that he
had turned a railway station into a
private library! One of the fore-
most of American novelists, a man
of real literary insight and of genuine
charm of style, says that he can write
as comfortably on a trunk in a room
at a hotel, waiting to be called for a
train, as in his own library. There
is a good deal of discipline behind
such a power of concentration as that
illustrated in both these cases; but
it is a power which can be culti-
vated by any man or woman of reso-
lution. Once acquired, the exercise
of it becomes both easy and delight-
ful. It transforms travel, waiting,
and dreary surroundings into one
rich opportunity. The man who

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