Excerpt from The Building of the City Beautiful City beautiful were hewn out in Jerusalem and other Bible Lands of the Orient long ago. After many years they were gathered up and the building went slowly on as I planted and wrought hard with hands and head away out here by the great Sundown Seas. Three small editions of parts of this book appeared in 1894, when the plates were melted. It was never really published till now so far as press and public are concerned, the small and un finished editions being absorbed mainly by personal friends. 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.