The Literary News, 1899, Vol. 20: A Monthly Journal of Current Literature (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Beginning with the most important element in the composition, we may say that the spirit of the title pervades it throughout. It is the reverential greeting of a devotee, and particu larly happy are the Opening lines, which read The story of Rome is the most splendid ro mance in all history. That is the stimulating introduction which is followed by a rapid yet comprehensive general survey, whose import is indicated by such heads to the chapters as, The Making of the City The Empire, The City of Augustus, The Middle Age. And The Fourteen Regions. After this general View the regions or wards are taken Up in detail, and we learn the peculiar character istics of each of them, and of the part that each has played in the development of that splendid romance. Then and finally come the separate discussions of Leo xiil., the Vatican and St. Peter's, lively word pictures, all of them, which invite 'to a far more liberal use of quotation than is practical.

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