The Hyacinth Club has the reputation of selecting its members from among the freshest and most active spirits in literature, science, and art. That is in a sense true, but activity in one or another Of those fields is not a con dition Of membership; for, just as the listen ing Boswell was the necessary complement of the talking Johnson, so in the Hyacinth Club there is an indispensable contingent Of passive members who find their liveliest satisfaction in hearing and looking On, rather than in speaking and doing. Something Of the home principle Of male and female is necessary for The completeness even of a club.

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