Richard W. Flint, in The Quarterly Journal of the
Of the Circus Library of Congress (Summer 1983), Su-perintendent of Documents, U.S. Govern- ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.
As an Iowa farm boy during the 1870s, novelist Hamlin Garland re- garded the wonders of a traveling circus as the equivalent of "the vi- sions of the Apocalypse." To most Americans today, the circus is largely a relic of "simpler times."
In ancient Rome, a "circus" was an arena...