I rying sname stands as the first landmark in American letters. No other American writer ha won the same sort of reeog. nition abroad or esteem at home as became his early in life. And he has lost very Kttle gromid, so far as we can judge by the appeal to figures. The copyright on his works ran out long since, and a great many editions of I rving, cheap and costly, complete and incomplete, have been issued from many sources. Yet his original pub Ushers are now selling, year by year, more of his books than ever before.
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