The New and the Old, or California and India in Romantic Aspects (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The New and the Old, or California and India in Romantic Aspects You find that he has brought back everything except his clothes, and that his mind and his trunk are alike crammed with the queerest curiosities. Suggestions of a various remoteness the grotesque, the barbaric, the marvellous, the stirring, are exhaled from his mere presence, as the people Of each nation are said to emit their own peculiar odor, and though he may be as empty of notes as a beggar, and has never once seen a pencil from first to last, you perceive that he has taken down the very Song the Syrens sang, and caught the Memnon's Morn ing Hymn, and fixed on the canvass of his fancy all the wonders of Mirage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.