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Show Transmissibility of Genius. The sale, of relics of Robert and Elizabeth Browning by executors of the estate of their son, the late Robert Weidemann Barrett Browning, w'hich began May 1, again calls attention to the fact that the child of a union so richly dowered, from the literary and artistic standpoint, failed to show traces of the genius of either parent. He was an artist, but did nothing extraordinary. ex-traordinary. It would almost seem that genius not only lias a way of sometimes consuming its possessor but also of consuming itself, as far as the immediate offspring are concerned. con-cerned. At any rate, the evidence as to its transmissibility is still lacking, although, of course, there are plenty of facts to justify a belief as to the traiiEmissibility of special talents. |