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Show The Mnii With a Grleveoce" and Soolety. New York Sun. "The man with a grience" ig now infuriated in-furiated on account of his exclusion from certain social circles in this city. , Why" he exclaimed, "there is not a man of genius in the world's history who would be a welcome guest in the fashionable sets of New York. They wonldn't tolerate a piaywriter like Shakespeare if he were living now, they would despise a printer like lien Frank- j lin; the great inventors were common fellowa whose presence they wouldn't endure; do you suppose that poor John Milton could has gotton into their soci- ety? The great composers and artists i would never have been invited to their I parties; they would not have spoken 1 to such a person as the ploughman, liobert Burns; but some of them might have tolerated the lymph inventor for a balfhour, because they have the lupus or suffer from the bacillus. Teere is no science or poetry or potency or genius io our fashionable, brainless society, and there is not a star of inte 1- i loct who could enter its ranks or stay there. It is not high-toned, if the word ! tone has any meaning." At this point the "man with a grievance" began to J read some passages from his latest diatribe dia-tribe against the ways of the world. |