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Books in Brief
January 9, 1929 issue

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The article presents information on two books. "A Journey to the Land of Eden, and Other Papers," by William Byrd and "Nick of the Woods," by Robert Montgomery Bird. These attractive volumes are numbers four and five of the excellent American Bookshelf--a reprint of certain fine old books that time has not robbed of vitality. Few works in our eighteenth-century library are so readable or so authentic as Colonel Byrd's "History of the Dividing Line," which has long been nearly inaccessible. Written in 1728--just two hundred years ago--as an informal journal of a surveying expedition, it is a delightful document of colonial life that any reader will enjoy.

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NICK of the Woods (Book); JOURNEY to the Land of Eden, & Other Papers, A (Book); BYRD, William, 1542 or 3-1623; BIRD, Robert Montgomery; BOOKS; UNITED States
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