Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 548
the work of Cavouris a good type of the most progressive step madeby nations in the nineteenth century. Cavoursink-stand, strangely enough, may be fancied tobe a symbol of his work. It seems to be anantique Roman lamp, possibly a figure of Sile-nus, to which have been added modern im-provements— a… … modern Italy and the conditions of a changedworld. Each of these was a man in whose handthe pen was mightier than the sword, and all 536 ABOUT OLD INK-STANDS. four ink-stands were part of the equipment withwhich they changed or directed the historyof the world. Before their time was the age of
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