. Afro-American encyclopaedia, or, The thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race [electronic resource]: embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving the numerical strength of each : in fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women : illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings . 566 AFRO-AMKRTCAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. P^H^ISSA $1. TjiOOQPSOri. in the Boston Advocate during
. Afro-American encyclopaedia, or, The thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race [electronic resource]: embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving the numerical strength of each : in fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women : illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings . 566 AFRO-AMKRTCAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. P^H^ISSA $1. TjiOOQPSOri. in the Boston Advocate during a part M of the years 1885 and 1886, there ran a serial story of fortychapters called Treading the Winepress, the opening para-graph of which was as follows: One of the prettiest towns inDixie is the capital of a State which has played no insignificantpart in our national history. Capitola, as I shall call this town, pos-. sesses little artificial beauty. Though the public edifices, most ofthe business houses and some of the piivate residences are of brickor stone, wood is the favorite material used in building. Many of thewooden dwellings, however, are beautiful in design and finish, andalmost everyone, no matter how small or clustered, has a flower-garden attached. Roses and violets, jonquils and hyacinths, pansiesand jessamines, lilacs and geraniums and hosts of other plants bloom THOUGHTS, DOINGS, AND SAYINGS OF THE RACE. 567 here luxuriantly. She is called the City of Flowers, and no town,tropical or semi-tropical, has a better right to the title. But tis nother flowers alone that make Capitola lovely. A double, often triplerow of trees, of which the elm, the sugarberry and the oak are themost conspicuous, line the broad, regular streets and, when springdecks them in their robes of living green, the town looks like a pieceof fairy land. As one traveler wrote of her some time previous tothe date of
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