A Century After - Picturesque Glimpses of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania; Including Fairmount, the Wissahickon, and Other Romantic Localities, With the Cities and Landscapes of the State #271902

His work explains its own plan, with the best eloquence of pen and pencil; and, like the City and Region to which it is dedicated, is a self — demonstra ting Panorama. Yet'a preface is as proper to a book as marrow to a bone. The Pith of a bone being, as Rabelais observes, the condensed essence of the nourishment that is in it.