There is no lack of treasures in the! world; the trouble is that they are all claimed: or if indeed there be any unclaimed (and surely there must be some such), they are so difficult to find that for the rank and file of mankind thes might ay well be among the claimed treaws, oF not exist at all. That was a compliment. which Charles Reade paid to old maids when he called them unclaimed treasures. Because a thing is unclaimed or rejected by no means implies its worthlessness. A goodly proportion of the master-pieces of literature een rejected by publishers, Thacke-(F's incomparable Vanity Fair among the number. The only positive proof of anything Doing a treasure is it having stood the time test. For thousands of years gold has everywhere been regarded as valuable, and people never seemed less inclined to go back on that opinion than they do today. For thirty-four years
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