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Excerpt from Studies in Modern Irish, Vol. 3
The reception Of the paper in the provinces was a perplexity to veteran journalists. From the first number it was received with an enthusiasm compounded of passionate sympathy and personal affection. It went on increasing in circulation till its purchasers in every provincial town exceeded those Of the local paper, and its readers were multiplied indefinitely by the practice Of regarding it not as a vehicle of news but of Opinion. It never grew Obsolete, but passed from hand to hand till it was worn to fragments. The delight which youngsouls thirsting for nutriment found in it has been compared to the refreshment afforded by the Sudden sight of a Munster valley in May after a long winter but the unexpected is a large source Of enjoy ment, and it resembles rather the sight of a garden cooled by breezes and rivulets from the Nile, in the midst of a long stretch of sand-banks without a shrub or a blade of grass. (life of Davis, p. 79, - sir Charles Gavan Duffy).
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