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Our Literary Age and the State of Modern Letters
A dense meditation on old and new letters, valuing Tacitus and Seneca alongside modern writers. It laments sensational fiction while praising scientific and literary progress, argues for discerning reading in Sabbath schools, and lauds steamship travel as a driver of civilization. it closes with notices of The Living Age and a Hamburg American voyage guide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacitus
Pliny
Quincilian
Deacon Jones
Sally Brown
United States of America
Danbury
Socrates
Harper’s Monthly Magazine
Messrs. C, B
Richard & Boas
Broadway
New York
Hamburg-American Packet Company
Europe
English Channel
Lirten
Sara Coleridge
Edinburgh Review
Anthony Trollope
Lirrenn & Gay
Boston
Paris
Marly
Rhine
Ape Forest
Edward Strahan
Gerome
Malcolm
George Macdonald
Robert Falconer
Cannes
R. Davey
Charlotte F. Bates
Sarah _ Winter Kellogg
Ferdinand de Esnepe
Suez Canal
J. E. Nourse
Francis Asheton
Patience
M.T
Titus Munson Doan
Kate Hillard
Martin
J. Griffin
Charles Edward Smith
Rome
Sarah Coleridge
Strauss