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Down to 1881 he printed chiefly volumes of verse which gave him a genuine, if not popular reputation. In that year he brought out his first romance, Malombra, and from time to time during the past quarter of a century he has followed it with Daniele Cortis, Il Mistero del Poeta, Piccolo Mondo Antico, Piccolo Mondo Moderno, and finally, in the autumn of 1905, Il Santo.
Translated from the German, by HERBERT PELHAM CORTIS. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co. 1858. In this famous nineteenth century of ours, which prides itself on being practical, and feeds voraciously on facts, and considers itself almost above being amused, we for our part rejoice to greet such a book as this.
"Of course," Hewitt said, "we've a number of very capital men just now, but I believe a deal in the forgotten riders of five, ten, and fifteen years back. Osmond, I believe, was better than any man riding now, and I think it would puzzle some of them to beat Furnivall as he was, at his best. But poor old Cortis really, I believe he was as good as anybody.
Nobody ever beat Cortis except let me see I think somebody beat Cortis once who was it now? I can't remember." "Liles," said the young man opposite, looking up quickly. "Ah, yes Liles it was; Charley Liles. Wasn't it a championship?" "Mile championship, 1880; Cortis won the other three, though." "Yes, so he did. I saw Cortis when he first broke the old 2.46 mile record."
"Yours respectfully, T. T. CORTIS, Deputy Sheriff." In the journal from which I take this letter it is stated that the poor and police expenses of Perth Amboy, also in New Jersey, amount in the same year to two dollars per head! The figures need no comment. Prairie Home. The Prairie Home Colony, in Franklin County, Kansas, was established by a French gentleman, E. V. Boissiere.
"And she possessed this bag?" mused Buntingford "which she or some one bought at Florence for I've discovered the address of a shop in it Fratelli Cortis, Via Tornabuoni, Firenze. You didn't find that out, Helena." He passed the bag to her, pointing out a little printed silk label which had been sewn into the neck of it. Then Vivian Lodge asked for it and turned it over.
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