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Show EMERSON'S MEMORY AT FAULT. Had at Times Almost Entire Lack of Remembrance. Kmerson was a notable sufferer from tho vagaries of momory. His biographer bi-ographer relates that ho mot him ono day In Hoston, apparently at n loss for somothltig, and asked him whero ho was going. "To dine," said Kmerson, "with a very old nnd dear friend. I know whero sho lives, but I hopo sho won't ask tno her name,!' and then ho proceeded to describe her as "tha mother of tho wife of tho young man tho tall man who speaks so well." nnd so on, until his Interlocutor guossod to whom ho wits referring. Kvon tho names of common objects often failed him completely. On ono occasion, when ho wanted an umbrella, umbrel-la, he said: "I can't toll Its name, but I can tell Its history. Strangors tako It away." This falling of Kmerson led to n pathetic scene when ho nttcndod l.ongtellow'B funeral, nml remarked as Ito gnzod at tho codln: "Ho was n sweet and beautiful soul; but I lmvo entirely forgotten his name." |