Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1881 — A Rare Talent. [ARTICLE]

A Rare Talent.

The faculty of drawing out of persons with whom one is conversing the best there is in them— brighter things even than they suppose themselves capable of—is the rare gift with which Nature has endowed some women. George Eliot was a most charming person in conversation, though she was a woman of few words, because of her intuitive insight into the

thoughts of others. A few words would put her into possession, not of what they said, but of what they would.fain have said, and she would so improve upon it that ordinary people went away charmed with her who had made them for once at least feel themselves to be wise. Long afterward, perhaps, she would recall to their remembrance the wise or witty things which they could hardly believe thembelves to have said, and which they assuredly never would have said but for her quickening influence. j u » Archbishop Fernando Blanco, of Valladolid, Spain, is dead.