Beyond the Labyrinth
Edward Page Mitchell, “The Ablest Man In The World” (1879)
The Ablest Man In The World. By Edward PageMitchell. 1879 [Originally published without attribution in the New York Sun May 4, 1879] It may or may not be remembered that in 1878 General Ignatieff spent several weeks of July at the Badischer Hof in Baden. The public journals gave out that he visited the watering-place for the benefit of his health, said to be much broken by protracted anxiety and responsibility in the service of the Czar. But everybody knew that Ignatieff was just then out of favor at St. Petersburg, and that his absence from the centres of […]