Henry Adams and the Adams Family--John Hay and Frank Mason--The Three _Mousquetaires_ of Culture--Paris--"The Frenchman"-- The South of France I I have been of late reading The Education of Henry Adams, and it recalls many persons and incidents belonging to the period about which I am now writing.

I knew Henry Adams well; first in London, then in Boston and finally throughout his prolonged residence in Washington City.

He was an Adams; very definitely an Adams, but, though his ghost may revisit the glimpses of the moon and chide me for saying so, with an English "cut to his jib." No three brothers could be more unlike than Charles Francis, John Quincy and Henry Adams.

Brooks Adams I did not know.

They represented the fourth generation of the brainiest pedigree--that is in continuous line--known to our family history.