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Show LAPSE OF AUTHORS MEMORIES, Great Men Have Been Unable to Expound Ex-pound Written Thought. There nro several anecdotes which bear out the theory that a competent and reverent commentator may somo-times somo-times expound a work of Renins moro cffoctlvcly than Its writer himself could iln, iteclnlly such works as tend to the allegorical. When tlw famous mystic Hotline was on his deathbed. It Is rotated that somo of his followers i -no to hlra with thu reouest that he would explain ex-plain a certain more than usually cryptic passage In his writings. Ho puzzled over It to no purpose. "My dear children," ho said ns ho laid tho book feebly aside, "when I wrote this I understood Its meaning, and no doubt tho omniscient Ood did Ho mny still remember It, but I linvn for-Rotten." for-Rotten." A very Blmllar storv Is told of other authors perhaps with as much futli. Klopstock, tho Gorman poet, whom his ndmlrors compared to Milton, was once iiunstloned nt Ctottltirin ns to tho exact mennliiR of one of lilt stanzas. Ho read It ovor onco or twlco, unil then delivered this Judgment: Judg-ment: "I cannot remember what I meant when I wroto It, but I do ro-mombor ro-mombor that It was ono of tho finest thliiRs I over wrote, and you cannot do better than devnto your lives to tho discovery of Ita niennlnK" |