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Thoughts Struggle and Peace Do Thou Love, Too! Invitation EDMONDO DE AMICIS 1846- The Light ('Constantinople') Resemblances (same) Birds (same) Cordova ('Spain') The Land of Pluck ('Holland and Its People') The Dutch Masters ('Holland and Its People') HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL (by Richard Burton) 1821-1881 Extracts from Amiel's Journal: Christ's Real Message Duty Joubert Greeks vs. Moderns Nature, and Teutonic and Scandinavian Poetry Training of Children Mozart and Beethoven FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME I. The Book of the Dead (Colored Plate). First English Printing (Fac-simile). Assyrian Clay Tablet (Fac-simile). John Adams (Portrait). John Quincy Adams (Portrait). Joseph Addison (Portrait). Louis Agassiz (Portrait). "Poetry" (Photogravure). Vittorio Alfieri (Portrait). "A Courtship" (Photogravure). "A Dutch Girl" (Photogravure). VIGNETTE PORTRAITS Pierre Abelard. Edmond About. Abigail Adams. Aeschines. Aeschylus. Aesop. Grace Aguilar. William Harrison Ainsworth. Mark Akenside. Alcaeus. Louisa May Alcott. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Jean le Rond D'Alembert. Edmondo de Amicis. _Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life._ _JOHN MILTON._ _CAXTON_. Reduced facsimile of the first page of the only copy extant of GODEFREY OF BOLOYNE _or_ LAST SIEGE AND CONQUESTE OF JHERUSALEM. The Prologue, at top of page, begins: Here begynneth the boke Intituled Eracles, and also Godefrey of Boloyne, the whiche speketh of the
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