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Fascinating John Bright

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Day
27
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Sir Wemyss Reíd gives soiue interesting remiuisceuces of John Bright in Cassell's Magazine. The great Liberal leader ofteu sat in au cld fashioned arinchair in the Reform club. He delighted iu tulk and was fond of repeatiug poetry. Ou oue occasion he began to talk to Sir Wemyss about his favorita hymns, and as he warmed to his subject he repeated some cf them. It was a strauge subject, perhaps, for a club smoking room, but it was still stranger to observe that as he spoke with that wonderful voice of his the other men in the room first looked up and began to listen, and then, as though drawn by an irresistible spell, drevv nearer to him, until before iong he had them all sitting ronnd him in a circle enjoying that "music of the human speech1' of which above all living men he was a master. John Bright recitiug bymns in a club smoking room! "There, " exclaims Sir Wemyss, "is a picture for au artist if heonly kuows how to treat it. "

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