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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

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ic. His numerous works, teeming withstriking situations, strong and noble in style, are models of literary excel-lence, and are as captivating to readers of to-day as they were half a centuryago. Charles Dickens, of England (b. February 7, 1812; d. June 9,1870), ablyexemplified that school of… … SIR WALTER SCOTT. faulty in plot and style and ridiculous in their exaggerations, his novelsmarked a new era in literature, and no books ever so appealed to the sym-pathies and good impulses of readers. James Fenimore Cooper (b. September 15, 1789; d. September 14, 1851)typifies a large and…

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