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The Ideals Of The Ancient World.* Were He Living Now

Coleridge (or was it Leigh Hunt?) would scarcely have put his question, Who reads an American book ? While the American people have yet to come to complete self- consciousness......

Books.

SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE.* THE book known as The Travels of Sir John. Mandeville is a real book of the Middle Ages, credulous, imaginative, and entertaining. It is legend rather than......