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must do his own evaluating. Did Page, for example, sometimes over state for the sake of "getting across" his idea? Did he sometimes make bad mistakes in his estimate of men or his forecasting of the important next task?
None the less, it is a great study of a very great and lovable personality. And it affords an admirable background for the "Letters." As for these letters, they are mostly written from England, but are numerous and cover a wide range of topics. And they are, I think, as Wilson said in 1915, "the best letters I have ever read."
Wake Forest.
