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Cubists and Post-impressionism
by Arthur Jerome EddyCubists and Post-impressionism is a short work written by Arthur Jerome Eddy, the author of “Delight, the Soul of Art,” “Recollections and Impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler,” etc.The young sculptor looks at the chaste perfection of Greek sculpture and says, “What is the use? I will do something different.” The young painter looks at the grea..
Elementary Botany
by George Francis AtkinsonThe present book is the result of a revision and elaboration of the author’s “Elementary Botany,” New York, 1898. The general plan of the parts on physiology and general morphology remains unchanged. A number of the chapters in the physiological part are practically untouched, while others are thoroughly revised and considerable new matter is added..
Harper's Electricity Book for Boys
by Joseph H. AdamsIf a handy-book of electricity like this had fallen into the hands of Thomas A. Edison when he was a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway, or when he was a telegraph operator, he would have devoured it with the utmost eagerness. To be sure, at that time, in the early sixties, all that we knew of electricity and its applications could have been told i..
Magic Shadows - The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures
by Martin QuigleyThe art of magic shadows, which just before the dawn of the twentieth century evolved into the modern motion picture, was born three centuries ago, at Rome. There Athanasius Kircher, a German priest, first showed his invention, the magic lantern, to friends, and enemies, at the Collegio Romano, where he was a professor of mathematics.The world prem..
The Rising Son
by Wm. Wells BrownThe Rising Son; or, the Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race is the biography of African-American race written by Wm. Wells Brown whose other works include “Sketches Of Places And People Abroad,” “The Black Man,” “The Negro In The Rebellion,” “Clotelle,” Etc.After availing himself of all the reliable information obtainable, the aut..
Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila & Zaragoza
by Albert F. CalvertThe six cities of Spain which form the subject of the following pages are little known to English travellers. Yet no one who would understand the country can afford to pass them by. Not only are they compact of artistic and architectural treasures, but within their walls much of the history of the Spanish nation has been made. Oviedo—that little ci..
The New Astronomy
by S. P. LangleyThe New Astronomy's author S. P. Langley's specifies in his introductory remark as I have written these pages, not for the professional reader, but with the hope of reaching a part of that educated public on whose support he is so often dependent for the means of extending the boundaries of knowledge.It is not generally understood that am..
Youth, Volume 1, Number 5, July 1902
by H. L. CogginsYouth, Volume 1, Number 5, July 1902An Illustrated Monthly Journal for Boys & Girls.Uncle Hayward and his family were New England people, who had settled in Georgia near the Ocmulgee River, where I was now paying them a really delightful visit. Harold and myself, being very fond of hunting, spent much time together in pursuit of the various kin..