. The century illustrated monthly magazine . BESSARION ON THE CALUMNIATOR OF PLATO, VENICE, 1516. FOLIO, 13 X 8 INCHES; BROWN CALF.(FROM TECHENER COLLECTION. OWNED BY MR. ROBERT HOE.) THE GROLIER THE GROLIER ARMS. ONCE upon a time M. Francisque Sarcey,wishing to express his abhorrent contemptfor a poor play, doubted whether it wouldplease even the inhabitants of Carpentras orof New York. I think we New Yorkers mayfairly protest against this likening of our fellow-citizens to the dwellers in the Boeotia of France,even though we do not dare to call our city theAthens of America. In the no
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . BESSARION ON THE CALUMNIATOR OF PLATO, VENICE, 1516. FOLIO, 13 X 8 INCHES; BROWN CALF.(FROM TECHENER COLLECTION. OWNED BY MR. ROBERT HOE.) THE GROLIER THE GROLIER ARMS. ONCE upon a time M. Francisque Sarcey,wishing to express his abhorrent contemptfor a poor play, doubted whether it wouldplease even the inhabitants of Carpentras orof New York. I think we New Yorkers mayfairly protest against this likening of our fellow-citizens to the dwellers in the Boeotia of France,even though we do not dare to call our city theAthens of America. In the noisy and futile dis-cussion as to the future literary capital of theseUnited States, one agreement was clear abovethe din, that this country had not as yet sucha focus of intellectual, political, and materialactivity as London was in the days of QueenElizabeth; and to the want of one such hereMr. Lowell attributes much of the backward-ness and provincialism of our own there is, fortunately, a centrifugaltendency in our system of politics and educa-tion, aiding in the starting of little literary cen-ters here and there throughout the land, it isclear also, I think, that there i
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