Excerpt from Old and New, Vol. 5: January, 1872, to July, 1872 The everlasting fountain of knowledge, Old and New (god in History). - bunsen. The year which has just now closed must find its place in history with other years which seemed wonderful as they passed by. Some of its marvels will seem less worthy of note to other times, than they seem to us; and it may never have poet or historian with wit or genius to mark it as a year of wonders to coming time. Who can tell? But whether the world choose to mark it in the calendar of the past or no, the world will have to note some extraordinary changes which had their visible beginning as it went by. And this generation, at the least, will not forget to note with a special mark upon its calendar, that year which saw another German army enter Paris; which saw Paris besieged by a French army, and fired by French hands which saw a king of Italy enter Rome as his capital, and an Italian parliament meet there at his order; which saw the accumulated controversies which had gathered for thirty years be tween England and America blotted out under the agreement of a High Peace Commission; and which saw, in a night and day of horror, the destruction of the very heart of the city of Chicago. The Annus Mirabilis of Dryden has no such record of marvels as is here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.