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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

see Bernhardt not as an enter­tainer, not as an actress, but as a miracle. We bring our state of mind with us; nothing she can do could alter it. In her we witness the astounding cumu­lative power of a personality. All that she has been builds the pedestal upon which is elevated what she does. That is what we FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 35 mean when we say that there's nothing suc­ceeds like success. We mean that all one's past energizes one's present; a man is not only what he is, but also what he has been. His power masses as he goes forward, in, creases like the rolling snowball. So we look at Bernhardt with wonder. She is an undying flame. Some one has said there are five elements: earth, air, fire, water, and Sarah Bernhardt. To all who adore the indomitable will-and who does not?-she is more than a hu­man being, she is a symbol. She is like the motto on the red curtain of her show-"Quand meme !" Over insuperable obstacles, through storms of scorn and volleys of ridicule, past slander, in spite of financial reverses, afflict­ed with

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