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The City of Washington
March 8, 1917 issue

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This article presents information about the book "A History of the National Capital," by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan. The city of Washington has always had two distinct aspects, the municipal and the national. Bryan's history, in spite of its title, concerns itself almost wholly with the former. Indeed, it is the first painstaking effort to trace in detail the development of the city as a city, earlier essays in the same field having allowed the relations of the city to the nation to obscure almost everything less dramatic, picturesque, and entertaining. Hence one may search the pages of this work in vain for sundry familiar stories which the author apparently regards as apocryphal, while others are reclad in new guises.

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HISTORY of the National Capital, A (Book); BRYAN, Wilhelmus Bogart; BOOKS; PICTURESQUE, The; ESSAYS; WASHINGTON (D.C.); UNITED States
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