Gardner, E.C.:

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COMMON SENSE IN CHURCH BUILDING. Copy of Noah Brooks, the noted author, journalist, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. This copy was later owned by the library of Brooks' home town, Castine, Maine; "Cas-tine" was the signature by which Brooks became famous during his Civil War correspondence for the Sacramento UNION. COMMON SENSE... is one of the scarcest of Gardner's books. "I would say there has been no attempt to give in these pages a technical discourse upon church architecture, but a simple protest against certain false and inconsistent modes of building, and a plea for truth and common sense" - Preface.

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