Among the new features which have been added to recent editions are items on the following subjects.
Among the new features which have been added to recent editions are items on the following subjects.
The art of making pottery seems to have been practised by mankind from very early times. It is even a question whether it was not known to the primitive inhabitants of Europe, in those early ages when the mammoth and reindeer still lived in the plains of France.
Gentlemen: I can only congratulate you on the great improvement you have achieved by the introduction of your Duplex Scale into your piano-fortes. I have repeatedly and carefully studied the effects of the Duplex Scale just applied to my Steinway Grand Piano. And find the improvement most surprising and favorable, especially in the upper notes, for Splendid as my Grand Piano was before, the Duplex Scale has rendered its tone even more liquid, singing, and harmonious. I deem this improvement very happy in its results and being based upon scientific principles, capable of still greater development. Yours, very truly, H. Helmholtz.
Si nous débutons par l'école française, c'est qu'elle est ici chez elle. En maîtresse de maison bien élevée, elle se tient au premier salon pour recevoir les visi teurs et les introduire dans ce vaste palais de l'art qu'elle mérite bien d'habiter, et où elle tient hono rablement sa place parmi les chefs — d'oeuvre de tous les pays et de toutes les écoles. On ne la gâte pas, d'ailleurs, cette pauvre école française. Ce n'est pas notre défaut, en France, de nous admirer nous mêmes, et nous mesurons à nos illustrations la louange d'une main avare. Par une sorte de légèreté dédaigneuse qui est dans le caractère de la nation, nous dénigrons, pour n'avoir pas l'air d'y tenir, les belles choses indigènes: en aucune contrée le pro verbe nul n'est prophète en son pays n'est plus vrai que chez nous. Ce que nous en disons, c'est pour expliquer comment le premier nom qui vient sous notre plume est le nom de David, au lieu d'être celui de Léonard de Vinci ou de Raphaél. Autrement on pourrait S'en étonner.
An etching is a print taken direct from a metal plate by the method known as copper-plate printing, and must not be confused with a pen-and-ink drawing. The work must be wrought with lines, and these lines must be etched, or eaten into the plate by means of acid or other chemicals. The plate is first covered with a thin coating of a wax-like substance called the ground, which protects the plate from the action of the acid. Through this ground the lines are drawn with a needle point, laying bare the metal. Acid is then applied and eats, or bites, a furrow into the metal wherever the needle has gone. Sometimes needles of different degrees of fineness are used, to get varying thicknesses of lines but usually only one point is employed, the stronger lines being obtained by allowing the acid to act for a longer time, the lines becoming wider as the acid bites more deeply. If any part of the etching is to remain finer or lighter than the other parts, the plate is removed from the acid, washed, dried, and these parts covered over with a varnish, which stops the acid from biting them any deeper, when the plate is again placed in the acid bath. Many gradations are usually made in a plate by this means. The time allowed for the action of the acid varies greatly, depending upon the acid or mordant used, the metal, the temperature, and other conditions, and may vary from a minute to two hours. I. Steel plate, polished for engraving or etching. 2. Zinc plate, polished for engraving or etching.
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III. In the case of Lots upon which there is a reserve, the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the Seller. IV. The Purchasers to give in their Names and Places of Abode, and to pay down 53. In the pound, or more, in part of payment, or the whole of the purchase-money, if required in default of which, the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold.
Dans le palais et sous le chaume, Moi, dit la soeur, j'ai de mes mains Distillé le miel et le baume.
Sur bois, 18 p. De haut, 9 p. De large. La Vierge tenant l'enfant Jésus sur ses genoux. Au fond une petite armoire.