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 then he went back to Dodd, Mead & Company, with whom he was identified until his physical disaster in 1912.

The New England inheritance led him to make possible for his younger brother the college education which had been denied himself. The economies which this required were among his fondest memories. If the thought of envy of his brother's brilliant career ever entered his head, no outsider had a chance to suspect that he wondered whether he might have done as well. The generous recognition of all that he had done, and the reputation won by the use of opportunities, was the more than satisfactory reward. The wonder in Livingston's own mind, during the last few months, was that the chance for a wider fame and a more eminent position in the world of scholars, had come to him, a book seller's clerk who had never entered college.

In 1898 he married Flora V. Milner of Deer Lodge, Montana, a friend of his boyhood. Mr. and Mrs. Livingston made their home at Scarsdale, nineteen miles north of New York City. There he found three acres of woods, cliffs, swamp and proper soil for the garden into which he put the happiest