History in a Back Yard (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from History in a Back Yard Hope for a summer in Europe vanished into the dim background of "next year" while discouragement occupied the foreground. Where forsooth could one get new ideas except in Europe, where find a library outside of London or Paris, where study historical records but in foreign archives, where see the results of archælogical discoveries outside of European museums, where harvest stores of historical knowledge except in foreign fields winter quarters for nine months at home were endurable for the sake of three months of activity in other lands, but hibernation prolonged to twenty-one months, - that was unthinkable. The calendar has indeed always seemed hopelessly wrong, - were not the three months in Europe a full year of mental life, and did not the nine months of constant draft on mental resources at home shrink to a paltry week of growth? Did not three months of acquisition in Europe leave one rich, while nine months of constant depletion of mental capital at home left one bankrupt? If "fifty years of Europe were better than a cycle of Cathay, " did it not follow that one-fourth of a year in Europe was better than three-fourths of a year anywhere else? It was all a tangle that might possibly have been straightened out after a summer abroad, but in June it was a hopeless snarl. 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.