. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. WHEN the American people de-sire the sort of writing thataffords the most pleasing, recreat-ing and healthy reading, the sortof book that wears best, that onecan pick up lovingly year afteryear and lose in it onesworry from contact with theharsh world and its noise,they will discover that inWashington Irving they havepossessed a mine of literarywealth as yet very superfi-cially explored. Except forthe fad of the thing, they have no need to import the volumesof Addison, Goldsmith and Eamb, which go to furnish th
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. WHEN the American people de-sire the sort of writing thataffords the most pleasing, recreat-ing and healthy reading, the sortof book that wears best, that onecan pick up lovingly year afteryear and lose in it onesworry from contact with theharsh world and its noise,they will discover that inWashington Irving they havepossessed a mine of literarywealth as yet very superfi-cially explored. Except forthe fad of the thing, they have no need to import the volumesof Addison, Goldsmith and Eamb, which go to furnish thelibraries of the genteel. Irving has been well styled the Washington of Americanliterature. As historian, essayist, traveler, satirist, humorist,and a charming teller of stories that have given a lastingromantic interest to American scenes, he has no this purely literary work, Irving did his country ines-timable service in redeeming it from the foreigners sneerthat it could produce everything but books. He won cordialrespect for his land and people by his exampl
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