romantic america

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INTRODUCTIONTHIS adventurer into the literary oifing has made so bold as to hitch his bowsprit to a star. lie modestly desires to be a sort of new Columbus and discover to the twentieth century the real romance of what old Christopher found in the fifteenth-the romance, obvious or hidden, upon which so many globe-trotting Americans now turn supercilious or unsuspecting backs.There is need of such a venture. By some strange chance the mysterious, thrilling, romantic elements of the American scene have never been compressed between a pair of covers since Bryant compiled "Picturesque America" and illustrated it with wood-cuts for the delight of a former generation. We have had many volumes about the poetic charm of Asia, Africa, Europe and the South Seas, but too few about that of the land which is, in many respects, the most romantic of all. "The whole country," writes the brilliant author of "The Spirit of American Literature," "is crying out for those who will record it, satTable of Contents CONTENTS; PAGE; i Provincetown, the Heart of Cave Cod 3; ii The Spell of Old Virginia33; in The City of Beautiful Smoke71; iv Mammoth Cave99; v Yellowstone Park134; vi Among the Old California Missions 101; vii The Yosemite Valley192; viii The Grand Canyon225; ix The Creole City of Atevt Orleans249; x The Open Road in Maine279; xi Unique Mount Desert308; ILLUSTRATIONS; The Grand Canyon of the ColoraduFrontispiece; From a painting by Maxfield Parrish; I'AGE; Commercial Street10; From a painting by Henry Guy Fangel; An Old Church by Sir Christopher Wren10; From a painting by Henry Guy Fangel; Along the Wharves19; From a painting by Anne Bosworlh Greene; The Dune Country24*; From paintings by Anne Bosworth Greene; Ebb-Tide on the "Risin' "-Bringing up the Catch29; Fron a painting by Henry Guy Fangel; One of the Wharves29; From a painting by Henry Guy Fangel; A Little Lane29; From a painting by Henry (5uy --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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