to think that we should pass them without noticing them! And over

the street pavement, the paving stones, those fragments of the

oldest remains of antiquity, one walks without ever thinking about

them. I have done the very thing myself. But now I look respectfully

at every paving-stone. Many thanks for the book! It has filled me with

thought, and has made me long to read more on the subject. The romance

of the earth is, after all, the most wonderful of all romances. It's a

pity one can't read the first volume of it, because it is written in a