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Introduction
of glory ruled the world — to receive the tributary that added vigorous grandeur to its flow. We should examine its tributaries from tongues that spoke on the banks of the Nile, and in India and China, and on the sacred plains of Judea ; from the thoughtful fields of Germany, central Europe and fashionable France, till finally it was swelled to almost boundless proportions and influence by that greatest of all tributaries, — the one from the English tongue.
But we have viewed the literary world as a bountiful harvest from which to gather abundant stores of mental food. After having taken a careful survey of the entire field, sickle in hand, we have gone to the most fertile spots and gathered sheaves of the tallest, ripest and most perfect grain. As the judicious husbandman saves the best seed in anticipation of an improved and abundant harvest, so these sheaves of tall, ripe grain — this “ precious life-blood ” of the “master-spirits” —we have garnered up in Treasures from the Prose World.
Frank Me Alpine.
Contents
Advice to a Would-Be Criminal
AdmIration op Genius
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