nd now
and again a touch of fantasy. Sometimes we may detect in a writer of
Short-stories a tendency toward the over-elaboration of ingenuity,
toward the exhibition of ingenuity for its own sake, as in a Chinese
puzzle. But mere cleverness is incompatible with greatness, and to
commend a writer as "very clever" is not to give him high praise. From
this fault of super-subtilty women are free for the most part. They are
more likely than men to rely on broad human emotion, and their tendency
in error is toward the morbid analysis of a high-strung moral situation.

BRANDER MATTHEWS.

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GENERAL GRANT AT FRANKFORT.

The extraordinary honors paid to General Grant in England created a
profound impression all over Europe. No other American, and, indeed, few
Europeans, had ever received such honors abroad; and what made the case
still more impressive and exceptional was the fact that this great
distinction was paid to no potentate or prince of the blood, but to a
simple private citizen, holding no rank or official position.

As soon as it was known that General Grant intended to travel on the
Continent, he was invited to visit Frankfort-on-the-Main. The invitation
was extended by the American residents of that city, and was accepted.
A joint meeting of Americans and Frankfort burghers was then held, and a
committee was appointed, half Germans and half Americans, to make
arrangements for the proposed reception and entertainment of General
Grant and his party. Mr. Henry Seligman, an American banker of
Frankfort, and the writer of this, were appointed by this committee to
intercept the distinguished tourist on his journey up the Rhine and
conduct him to the city.

It was on a charming summer morning that we quitted Frankfort on this
mission. General Grant was at Bingen, where he had arrived the evening
before from Cologne. He was accompanied by Mrs. Grant, his son Jesse
Grant, and General Adam Badeau, then Consul-General at London. Their
arrival at Bingen had been so unostentatious that their presence in the
town was scarcely known outside of the hotel in which they had taken
rooms. Their departure was alike unnoticed.

Our train drew up at Bingen just as a special _Schnellzug_ with the
Emperor of Germany on board swept by. Proceeding at once to the hotel,
we learned that General Grant had already left for Ruedesheim, but had
possibly not yet crossed the river. We hastened to t