Stately homes in America : from colonial times to the present day (1903)
Desmond, Harry W. (Harry William), 1863-1913, Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 22
an life. Frederika Bremer published in 1853 ^^^ ^<^^umes upon the ** Homes of the New World, apparentlywithout finding anything worthy of description in the**home buildings. Of course, Miss Bremer was a high-minded person, and used the word home to express aspiritual rather than a material… … MEN WHO BUILD FINE HOUSES life presented nothing worthy of attention. Even Mr.Bryce, at a very much later period, passes over this aspectof American social growth with no specific consideration.The contemporary European observer, on the other hand, isimmediately attracted and impressed by our…
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