Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire

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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, and use of diacritics in the original document have been preserved.
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Interior of S. Sophia. Showing the Sultan's pew and the stairs to the pulpit.
Constantinople
The Story of the old Capital of the Empire by William Holden Hutton, Fellow of S. John Baptist College, Oxford. Illustrated by Sydney Cooper
London: J. M. Dent & Co. Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street Covent Garden, W.C. · · 1900
This superb successor
Of the earth's mistress, as thou vainly speakest,
Stands 'midst these ages as, on the wide ocean,
The last spared fragment of a spacious land,