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 at the unembittered keenness of the author's mind, for the gentle understanding that accompanies her clearness of vision is not found often in people who ‘see through’ things. Miss Sedgwick goes further than the ordinary satirist, and sees through even her own cleverness, into that deep need of humanity—under all foibles, limitations, vanities—for sympathy.

BY LILY A. LONG