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Title: The critic in the Occident
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Fitch, George Hamlin, 1852- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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PLATE LV Carlyles House in Cheyne Row, Chelsea. Here in This Plain Brick House the Author Lived From 1824 Until His Death in 1881. It is a Museum of Carlyle Relics and Manuscripts, One of the Most Interesting Places in London, Yet Most Londoners Have Never Seen It. The Majority of Visitors Are Americans
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PLATE L\ I The Garden of Carlyles House. A Sheltered, Sunny Place, With One Old Beech Tree and Vines on the High Brick Walls. Here Oarlyle Loved to Sit and Smoke and Think Out His Books NEW YORK, THE SKY-SCRAPING MARVEL OF THE NEW WORLD Impressions of New York After Seven Years The voyage across the Atlantic from Liver-pool to New York was uneventful. Mysteamer was the Baltic which was followedby the ill-fated Titanic. Few icebergs were seen,but slow time was made through the great NewFoundland fog-belt. The first sight of the Statue of Liberty in NewYork harbor and of the ships flying the Stars andStripes, looks very good to the man who hasscarcely seen an American flag since he left home,seven months before. Then comes that awe-inspir-ing skyline of New York, which is changed byevery new skyscraper-a spectacle more impressivethan anything that can be seen in Europe. Thisskyline is as rugged and looms as dark and menac-ing against the clear blue background as a moun-tain wall of the

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