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Show Ever Read a Cento Qook7 "This volume," Bald the .-Ihlloplillo, "Is n cento, It Is composed of detached de-tached sentence tnken from tho works of Thackeray. It umkes a novel, nov-el, sensible, lint short, and U wns composed In seven years by a bedridden bedrid-den buroneBs. Tho boat-known cento Is probably tho Kmprcss Kudoxla's 'Life of Christ,' madn entirely of lines from Homer. There Is a similar life, composed by Boss, that consists wholly whol-ly of detached lines from Virgil- Centos Cen-tos nre often very lahmblo. Ono compiled com-piled by Alexander Hamilton from Milton's 'I'nrndlse Lost' sold not long slnco for $500. Tho book was a history his-tory of America." |