This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...did a primitive people get them there? How did they raise these vast blocks and place them upon the top of the upright supports? Have other races lived, flourished and perished with high civilization before our own? I made all these inquiries and many more of the old guide at the temple, and finally he said: ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...did a primitive people get them there? How did they raise these vast blocks and place them upon the top of the upright supports? Have other races lived, flourished and perished with high civilization before our own? I made all these inquiries and many more of the old guide at the temple, and finally he said: "H'l can h'always tell h'Americans by the h'odd questions they ask. Now that big stone yonder fell h'over and broke in the year 1797, and when I told this to one of your countrymen he said: " ' Well, did you see it fall?' "' Good heavens, ' said I, ' that was nearly a hundred years ago.' " Then I was only last week pointing out to a pretty young h'Amer ican lady, how only one day in the year, and that the longest day, the first rays of the rising sun come directly over that tallest stone, and strike on that stone lying down over there with the letter 'h'A'on it, which means the altar. " ' Oh, ' she said, ' I suppose you have seen it more than a thousand times.' " ' Lord bless you, miss/ said I, ' it only happens once a year.'" Laughter. Henry Irving, the actor, told me that Toole, the comedian, said to him one day: "And so you have done more in twenty years to revive and properly present the plays of Shakespeare than any man living, and were never at Stratford? Let's go at once." A few hours found them roaming over all the sacred and classic scenes by the Avon. As;hey were returning to the hotel in the early evening, they met an agricul ural laborer coming home with his shirt outside his pantaloons, with his pipe in his mouth, stolid and content. Toole asked him: " Does Mr. Shakespeare live here? " "No, sor. I think he be dead." " Well, do many people come to see his grave? " "Oh, yes, sor." " What did he do to make these great crowds visit...
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Very Good. Hardcover with gilt and green stamped green cloth boards, 1896, large octavo, 570pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with rubbing and soil to boards and spine, edgewear that gently tears cloth at spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.