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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.
VICTORIAN LITERATURE
SIXTY YEARS OF BOOKS
AND BOOKMEN
Births have brought us richness and variety,
And other births will bring us richness and variety;
I do not call one greater and one smaller;
That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
Walt Whitman
VICTORIAN
LITERATURE
SIXTY YEARS
OF BOOKS AND
BOOKMEN
BY
CLEMENT SHORTER
LONDON: JAMES BOWDEN
10 HENRIETTA STREET
COVENT GARDEN W.C. 1897