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in itself. There is as much wit spoken around the table laden with crockery as at that shining with silver; as much logical reasoning, humble scientific research and reverence, out of society as in it. Three-story brick residents can discuss books as well as people. There are two facts ever to be remembered regarding society: first, that it exists everywhere; or that there is society out of society; secondly, that there is a foolish ambition everywhere, which, rightly termed, is discontented snobbishness. At a certain semi-snobbish dead-in-earnest-to-succeed literary set, the absence of well-known writers was conspicuous, while the impressiveness of rising talent was oppressive. "Is every one here a professor?" was asked. *Professors or professionals who will soon be recognized as creating Boston thought," was the reply. Such self-content is really better, happier, than distrusting aping of another. Each circle has its own public, and yet the circles intermingle.