THE GATES WIDE OPEN;

OR,

SCENES IN ANOTHER WORLD.

RITISH

OR

SCENES IN ANOTHER WORLD.

BY

GEORGE WOOD,

AUTHOR OF "PETER SCHLEMIHL IN AMERICA," "MODERN PILGRIMS," ETO.

What if earth

Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein
Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?

MILTON, P. L., Book V.

SOORATES, before drinking the cup of hemlock, said to his disciples,
"It is especially suited to one who is on the eve of departing to another
world, to inquire into and speculate upon his migration thither-of what
nature we suppose it to be."

SANDFORD'S PпEDO, p. 8.

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149 WASHINGTON STREET.