— Jane Andrews, Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now (1885) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #238]

-- Eugene Field, Lullaby Land (1910) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #224]

You can say that again!

Snorre Sturleson retold the same old stories, with others equally marvelous, in the Younger Edda.

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie, Norse Stories (1902) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #215]

the old stories of the battles of the gods and the giants that had been repeated for hundreds of years by Norse firesides in the long winter evening were brought together by some unknown man in Ireland, and were known henceforth at the Elder Edda; and a hundred years later

spires of cities rising by the riversides or mingled with the sedge-like masts on the many-curved seacoast, in the same spots where they rise to-day.

-- George Eliot, Romola An Historically Illustrated Edition (1906) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #212 & #213]

the Western isles, saw nearly the same outline of firm land and unstable sea,--saw the same great mountain shadows on the same valleys as he has seen to-day,--saw olive mounts, and pine forests, and the broad plains green with young corn or rain-freshened grass,--saw the domes and

upon the life of men grows weaker and weaker!”

-- Count Lyof N. Tolstoi, What is Religion? (1902) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #207]

-- Mary Hallock Foote, The Led-horse Claim (1908) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #205]

-- Louisa May Alcott, Jo’s Boys (1886, 1915) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection]