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Illumination and Its Development in the Present DayIn all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks; yet they could not exist without the aid of these. This quotation from Cicero may...

Illusions: A Psychological StudyThe present volume takes a wide survey of the field of error, embracing in its view not only the illusions of sense dealt with in treatises on physiological optics, etc., but also other errors familiarly known as illusions, and resembling the...

Overbeck IN offering to the public the first complete biography yet attempted of the painter Overbeck, I wish to give a few words in explanation. The task has been far from easy: the materials, though the reverse of scanty, are scattered: reminiscences of the...

TurnerTHE late Mr. Thornbury lost such an opportunity of writing a worthy biography of Turner as will never occur again. How he dealt with the valuable materials which he collected is well known to all who have had to test the accuracy of his...

Sir Edwin LandseerThe text of a former work on the early productions of Sir Edwin Landseer has been, for the second time, revised and extended by the author; and the subject has been continued to the death of the artist. The biographers aim is...

Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery We take pleasure in presenting this book, trusting that the information it contains will be of interest and service. In compiling this catalogue we have included such descriptive matter as will set forth the main features and advantages of...

Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 - Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510 Illustration notes such as "shown...

Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives; Baldwin Locomotive WorksThe Baldwin Locomotive Works dates its origin from the inception of steam railroads in America. Called into existence by the early requirements of the railroad interests of the country, it has grown with their growth and kept pace...

Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico And Arizona in 1879 - Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428 The following catalogue of...

Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 - Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466 It is thought best that I...

Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 - Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594 a with...

Illustrated Edition of the Life and Escape of Wm. Wells Brown from American Slavery - Written by Himself The present Narrative was first published in Boston (U.S.), in July, 1847, and eight thousand copies were sold in less than eighteen months from the time...

Illustrated history of ancient literature, oriental and classicalLiterature, in its broadest sense, comprises the written productions of all nations in all ages. It is the permanent expression of the intellectual power of man, and reflects the popular manners, the political condition, the moral and...

Illustrated History of Furniture, fifth ed. - From the Earliest to the Present TimeN the following pages the Author has placed before the reader an account of the changes in the design of Decorative Furniture and Woodwork, from the earliest period of which we...

Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Timen the following pages the Author has placed before the reader an account of the changes in the design of Decorative Furniture and Woodwork, from the earliest period of which we have any reliable...

Illustrated history of the United States mint - with a complete description of American coinage, from the earliest period to the present timeThe need of a circulating medium of exchange has been acknowledged since the earliest ages of man. In the primeval days, bartering...

Illustrated Horse Breaking I offer this work to the favourable consideration of the public, as an attempt to describe a reasoned-out system of horse-breaking, which I have found, by practical experience, to be easy of execution, rapid in its effects, and requiring the possession...

Illustrated Index of British Shells - Containing figures of all the recent speciesThe first idea of this Work arose from the occasional use of Mr. Damon's 'Catalogue of the Shells of Great Britain and Ireland,' named after the 'History of British Mollusca,' etc. Here...

The Battle of Verdun (1914-1918)The Comit du Ravitaillement des Rfugies, whose headquarters are at the Collge, Rue St. Paul (see Guide, p.31 and 33), has installed a refectory and dormitory in the Collge. The Comit supplies tourists with the addresses of private persons who...

Illustrated Science for Boys and GirlsWe will suppose that it is a great newspaper, in a great city, printing daily 25,000, or more, copies. Here it is, with wide columns, with small, compact type, with very little space wasted in head lines, eight large...