as he had a private idea about how it could have arrived on
the mountain. The most interesting sections of Transcaucasia and Ararat are being re-published in The Explorers Of Ararat since Bryce was one of the
earliest explorers of the mountain.
His interest in sociology and philosophy is evident in the third of his great treatises, The American Commonwealth (1888),
a classic that is still read and used. Bryce was ambassador to the United States from 1907 to 1913; he was one of the most popular ambassadors
ever to be in Washington, since his knowledge of Americans, as revealed in his writings, was profound.
His other major works are Studies in History and Jurisprudence (1901) and Modern Democracies (1921).
Biographies were done by H. A. L. Fisher (2 vol., 1927, repr. 1973) and E.Bob Sidebottom operated one of the first comic book shops in the country in San Jose, California, in the midst of head shops and panhandlers on San Fernando Street near the state college. He also owned California Comics, a small publisher of undergrounds, which launched its first comic series with Barbarian Comics in 1972. One of the first comics I got into as a kid was Conan the Barbarian, and one of my favorite funny books was Groo the Wanderer, so naturally I had high hopes for an underground comic book with a title like Barbarian Comics.

I guess I was expecting something with a little more underground comic flavor than what Barbarian Comics delivers. The first two issues are dominated by the epic adventure "Sun and Steel" by