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The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume I (of 2), by Benjamin Ellis Martin and Charlotte M. Martin: (full image Illustrated) BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTIN (Author), CHARLOTTE M. MARTIN (Author) B00BXN3H4E File Size: 1705 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume I (of 2), by Benjamin Ellis Martin and Charlotte M. Martin: (full image Illustrated) CONTENTS Three Time-worn Staircases The Scholars' Quarter of the Middle Ages Molière and his Friends From Voltaire to Beaumarchais The Paris of the Revolution INTRODUCTORY This book has been written for those who seek in Paris something more than a city of shows or a huge bazaar, something better than the cabaret wherein François I. found entertainment, and yet not quite?still in Hugo's phrase?the library that Charles V. esteemed it. There are many lovers of this beautiful capital of a great people, who, knowing well her unconcealed attractions, would search out her records and traditions in stone, hidden and hard to find. This legitimate curiosity grows more eager with the increasing difficulties of gratifying it in that ancient Paris that is vanishing day by day; and, in its bewilderment, it may be glad to find congenial guidance in these pages. In them, no attempt is made to destroy that which is new in order to reconstruct what was old. In telling the stories of those monuments of past ages that are visible and tangible, reference is made only to so much of their perished approaches and neighbors as shall suffice for full realization of the significance of all that we are to see. This significance is given mainly by the former dwellers within these walls. We shall concern ourselves with the human document, illustrated by its surroundings. The student of history can find no more suggestive relics of mediæval Paris than the still existing towers and fragments of the wall of Philippe-Auguste, which shall be shown to him; for us, these stones must be made to speak, not so essentially of their mighty builder as of the common people, who moved about within that enclosure and gave it character. In like manner, the walls, which have sheltered soldiers, statesmen, preachers, teachers, workers in art and letters, illustrious men and women of all sorts and conditions, will take on the personality of these impressive presences. When we stand beneath the roof of that favorite personage in history, that spoiled child of romance, who happens to be dear to each one of us, we are brought into touch with him as with a living fellow-creature. The streets of Paris are alive with these sympathetic companions, who become abiding friends, as we stroll with them; and allow none of the ache, confessed to be felt in such scenes, despite her reasoning, by Madame de Sévigné. Nor do they invite, here, any critical review of their work in life, but consent to scrutiny of their lineaments alone, and to an appreciation of their personal impress on their contemporaries and on us. So that essays on themes, historic, literary, artistic, can find no place in this record. Indeed, labor and time have been expended "in hindering it from being ... swollen out of shape by superfluous details, defaced with dilettanti antiquarianisms, nugatory tag-rags, and, in short, turned away from its real uses, instead of furthered toward them." In this sense, at least, the authors can say in Montaigne's words, "ceci est un livre de bonne foy." In this presentation of people and places it has been difficult, sometimes impossible, to keep due sequence both of chronology and topography. Just as Mr. Theodore Andrea Cook found in the various châteaux of his admirable "Old Touraine," so each spot we shall visit in Paris "has some particular event, some especial visitor, whose importance overshadows every other memory connected with the place." With that event or that visitor we must needs busy ourselves, without immediate regard to other dates or other personages. Again, to keep in sight some conspicuous figure, as he goes, we must leave on one side certain memorable scenes, to which we shall come back. Each plan has been pursued in turn, as has seemed desirable, for the sake of the clearness and accuracy,   The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume II (of 2), by Benjamin Ellis Martin and Charlotte M. Martin : (full image Illustrated) (Vol. II) CHARLOTTE M. MARTIN (Author), BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTIN (Author) B00BXUS5NU File Size: 2181 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume II (of 2), by Benjamin Ellis Martin and Charlotte M. Martin: (full image Illustrated) CONTENTS The Southern Bank in the Nineteenth Century The Paris of Honoré de Balzac The Paris of Alexandre Dumas The Paris of Victor Hugo The Making of the Marais The Women of the Marais THE SOUTHERN BANK IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY In preceding chapters we have come upon the small beginnings of the Scholars' Quarter; we have had glimpses of the growth of the great mother University and of her progeny of out-lying colleges; and we have trodden, with their scholars and students, the slope of "the whole Latin Mountain," as it was named by Pantaléon, that nephew of Pope Urban IV., who extolled the learning he had acquired here. Looking down from its crest, over the hill-side to the Seine, we have had under our eyes the mediæval Pays Latin, filling up the space within its bounding wall, built by Philippe-Auguste and left untouched by Charles V.; we have seen that wall gradually obliterated through the ages, its gate-ways with their flanking towers first cut away, its fabric picked to pieces, stone by stone; while, beyond its line, we have watched the building up, early in the seventeenth century, of the Faubourg Saint-Germain, over the Pré-aux-Clercs, and in the fields beyond, and along the river-bank toward the west. In the centre of this new quarter the nobility of birth was soon intrenched behind its garden-walls, and in the centre of the old quarter the aristocracy of brains was secluded within its courts. The boundary-line of the two quarters, almost exactly defined by the straight course from the Institute to the Panthéon, speedily became blurred, and the debatable neutral ground between was settled by colonists from either region, servants of the State, of art, of letters. In our former strollings through long-gone centuries, we have visited many of these and many of the dwellers on the University hill; we are now to turn our attention to those brilliant lights on the left bank who have helped to make Paris "la ville lumière" during the forenoon of the nineteenth century. Through the heart of the faubourg curved the narrow Rue Saint-Dominique, from Esplanade des Invalides to Rue des Saints-Pères. This eastern end, nearly as far west as Rue de Bellechasse, has been carried away by new Boulevard Saint-Germain, and with it the hôtel of the de Tocqueville family, which stood at No. 77 of the ancient aristocratic street. Here in 1820 lived the Comtesse de Tocqueville, with her son, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel, a lad of fifteen. Here he remained until the events of 1830 sent him to the United States, with a mission to study their prison systems; a study extended by him to all the institutions of the Republic, which had a profound interest for the French Republicans of that time. His report on those prisons appeared in 1832, and in 1835 he put forth the first volume of "De la Démocratie en Amérique," its four volumes being completed in 1840. That admirable survey of the progress of democracy?whose ascendancy he predicted, despite his own predilections?still carries authority, and at the time created a wide-spread sensation. It made its author famous, and promoted him to the place of first-assistant lion in the salon of Madame Récamier, whose head lion was always Châteaubriand. De Tocqueville had settled, on his return to Paris, in this same faubourg; residing until 1837 at 49 Rue de Verneuil, and from that date to 1840 at 12 Rue de Bourgogne. Elected Deputy in 1839, he soon crossed the Seine, and we cannot follow him to his various residences in the quarter of the Madeleine. For a few months in 1849 he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of the Prince-President, and was among the Deputies put into cells in December, 1851. His remaining years, until his death at Cannes in 1859, were spent in retirement from all public affairs.   Historic Adventures, Tales from American History, by Rupert S. Holland. : (full image Illustrated) Rupert S. Holland (Editor) B00C0DUEU6 File Size: 857 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- Historic Adventures, Tales from American History, by Rupert S. Holland. : (full image Illustrated) Contents : I. The Lost Children II. The Great Journey of Lewis and Clark III. The Conspiracy of Aaron Burr IV. How the Young Republic Fought the Barbary Pirates V. The Fate of Lovejoy's Printing-Press VI. How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon VII. How the Mormons Came to Settle Utah VIII. The Golden Days of 'Forty-Nine IX. How the United States Made Friends with Japan X. The Pig that Almost Caused a War XI. John Brown at Harper's Ferry XII. An Arctic Explorer XIII. The Story of Alaska XIV. How the "Merrimac" was Sunk in Santiago Harbor Illustrations : Shooting tongues of smoke from their great black throats Sawquehanna seemed to remember the voice Decatur caught the Moor's arm The last six hundred miles were the hardest Nauvoo had handsome houses and public buildings Wherever there was a stream explorers began to dig The teams, exhausted, began to fail Spanish boats pulled close to them   The History of Peter the Great, by Tobias Smollett from Voltaire. Voltaire (Author), Tobias Smollett (Author) B00CFP945U File Size: 750 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- The History of Peter the Great, by Tobias Smollett from Voltaire. THE HISTORY OF PETER THE GREAT, EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. FROM THE FRENCH OF VOLTAIRE, BY SMOLLETT. MANCHESTER: S. JOHNSON & SON, No. 3, OLDHAM-STREET; AND 48, CHURCH-ST., LIVERPOOL. MDCCCXLV. CONTENTS I. Description of Russia. II. Continuation of the description of Russia, population, finances, armies, customs, religion: state of Russia before Peter the Great. III. The ancestors of Peter the Great. IV. John and Peter.?Horrible Sedition among the Strelitzes. V. Administration of the princess Sophia. Extraordinary quarrel about religion. A conspiracy. VI. The reign of Peter the First.?Beginning of the grand reformation. VII. Congress and Treaty with the Chinese. VIII. Expedition to the Palus Mæotis; conquest of Azoph.?The czar sends young gentlemen into foreign countries for improvement. IX. Travels of Peter the Great. X. A conspiracy punished.?The corps of strelitzes abolished, alterations in customs, manners, church, and state. XI. War with Sweden.?The battle of Narva. XII. Resources after the battle of Narva. That disaster entirely repaired. Peter gains a victory near the same place. The person who was afterwards empress made prisoner at the storming of a town. Peter's successes. His triumph at Moscow. XIII. Reformation at Moscow.?Further successes.?Founding of Petersburg.?The czar takes Narva, &c. XIV. Peter the Great keeps possession of all Ingria, while Charles XII. is triumphant in other places.?Rise of Menzikoff.?Petersburg secured.?The czar executes his designs notwithstanding the victories of the king of Sweden. XV. While Peter is strengthening his conquests, and improving the police of his dominion, his enemy Charles XII. gains several battles: gives laws to Poland and Saxony, and to Augustus, notwithstanding a victory gained by the Russians.?Augustus resigns the crown, and delivers up Patkul, the czar's ambassador.?Murder of Patkul, who is sentenced to be broke upon the wheel. XVI. Attempts made to set up a third king of Poland.?Charles XII. sets out from Saxony with a powerful army, and marches through Poland in a victorious manner.?Cruelties committed.?Conduct of the czar.?Successes of the king of Sweden, who at length advances towards Russia. XVII. Charles XII. crosses the Boristhenes, penetrates into the Ukraine, but concerts his measures badly.?One of his armies is defeated by Peter the Great: he loses his supply of provisions and ammunition: advances forward through a desert country: his adventures in the Ukraine. XVIII. Battle of Pultowa. XIX. Consequences of the battle of Pultowa.?Charles XII. takes refuge among the Turks.?Augustus, whom he had dethroned, recovers his dominions.?Conquests of Peter the Great. XX. Campaign of Pruth. XXI. Conclusion of the Affairs of Pruth. XXII. Marriage of the czarowitz.?The marriage of Peter and Catherine publicly solemnized.?Catherine finds her brother. XXIII. Taking of Stetin.?Descent upon Finland.?Event of the year 1712. XXIV. Successes of Peter the Great.?Return of Charles XII. into his own dominions. XXV. State of Europe at the return of Charles XII. Siege of Stralsund. XXVI. New travels of the czar. XXVII. Continuation of the Travels of Peter the Great.?Conspiracy of baron Gortz.?Reception of the czar in France. XXVIII. Of the return of the czar to his dominions.?Of his politics and occupations. XXIX. Proceedings against prince Alexis Petrowitz. XXX. Works and establishments in 1718, and the following years. XXXI. Of the trade of Russia. XXXII. Of the laws. XXXIII. Of Religion. XXXIV. The congress of Aland or Oeland. Death of Charles XII., &c. The treaty of Nystadt. XXXV. Conquests in Persia. XXXVI. Of the Coronation of the Empress Catherine I. and the Death of Peter the Great. Original Pieces Relative to this History: Sentence pronounced against the Czarowitz Alexis. The Peace of Nystadt. Ordinance of the Emperor Peter I. for the crowning of the Empress Catherine. PETER THE GREAT. CHAP. I. DESCRIPTION OF...   A Text-book of the History of Painting, by John C. Van Dyke : (full image Illustrated) L.H.D. JOHN C. VAN DYKE (Author) B00CKA31PE File Size: 7650 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- A Text-book of the History of Painting, by John C. Van Dyke : (full image Illustrated) A TEXT-BOOK OF THE HISTORY OF PAINTING BY JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D. PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF ART IN RUTGERS COLLEGE AND AUTHOR OF "ART FOR ART'S SAKE," "THE MEANING OF PICTURES," ETC. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 91 and 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK LONDON, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA 1909 Copyright, 1894, by LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO Professor of The History of ART in RUTGERS College and author of "ART FOR ART'S SAKE", "THE MEANING OF PICTURES" etc. PREFACE. The object of this series of text-books is to provide concise teachable histories of art for class-room use in schools and colleges. The limited time given to the study of art in the average educational institution has not only dictated the condensed style of the volumes, but has limited their scope of matter to the general features of art history. Archæological discussions on special subjects and æsthetic theories have been avoided. The main facts of history as settled by the best authorities are given. If the reader choose to enter into particulars the bibliography cited at the head of each chapter will be found helpful. Illustrations have been introduced as sight-help to the text, and, to avoid repetition, abbreviations have been used wherever practicable. The enumeration of the principal extant works of an artist, school, or period, and where they may be found, which follows each chapter, may be serviceable not only as a summary of individual or school achievement, but for reference by travelling students in Europe. This volume on painting, the first of the series, omits mention of such work in Arabic, Indian, Chinese, and Persian art as may come properly under the head of Ornament?a subject proposed for separate treatment hereafter. In treating of individual painters it has been thought best to give a short critical estimate of the man and his rank among the painters of his time rather than the detailed facts of his life. Students who wish accounts of the lives of the painters should use Vasari, Larousse, and the Encyclopædia Britannica in connection with this text-book. Acknowledgments are made to the respective publishers of Woltmann and Woermann's History of Painting, and the fine series of art histories by Perrot and Chipiez, for permission to reproduce some few illustrations from these publications. John C. Van Dyke TABLE OF CONTENTS. List of Illustrations General Bibliography Introduction I. Egyptian Painting II. Chaldæo-Assyrian, Persian, Phœnician, Cypriote, and Asia Minor Painting III. Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Painting IV. Italian Painting--Early Christian and Mediæval Period, 200-1250 V. Italian Painting--Gothic Period, 1250-1400 VI. Italian Painting--Early Renaissance, 1400-1500 VII. Italian Painting--Early Renaissance, 1400-1500, Continued VIII. Italian Painting--High Renaissance, 1500-1600 IX. Italian Painting--High Renaissance, 1500-1600, Continued X. Italian Painting--High Renaissance, 1500-1600, Continued XI. Italian Painting--The Decadence and Modern Work, 1600-1894 XII. French Painting--Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries XIII. French Painting--Nineteenth Century XIV. French Painting--Nineteenth Century, Continued XV. Spanish Painting XVI. Flemish Painting XVII. Dutch Painting XVIII. German Painting XIX. British Painting XX. American Painting Postscript Index LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Velasquez, Head of Æsop, Madrid Frontispiece Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Ti, Saccarah Portrait of Queen Taia Offerings to the Dead. Wall painting Vignette on Papyrus Enamelled Brick, Nimroud Enamelled Brick, Khorsabad Wild Ass. Bas-relief Lions Frieze, Susa Painted Head from Edessa Cypriote Vase Decoration Attic Grave Painting Muse of Cortona Odyssey Landscape Amphore, Lower Italy Ritual Scene, Palatine Wall painting Portrait, Fayoum, Graf Collection Chamber in Catacombs, with wall decorations Catacomb Fresco, S. Cecilia Christ as Good Shepherd, Ravenna mosaic Christ and Saints   The Violoncello and Its History, by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski : (full image Illustrated) Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski (Author, Preface), Isobella S. E. Stigand (Translator) B00CMX7VG4 File Size: 725 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- The Violoncello and Its History, by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski : (full image Illustrated) The Violoncello and Its History, by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski, Translated by Isobella S. E. Stigand AUTHOR?S PREFACE. In the following pages I present to the musical world the History of the Violoncello and Violoncello playing. I have preceded it by the History of the Viola da Gamba, for the reason that this instrument must be considered the precursor of the Violoncello. For my work I have made use of the musical dictionaries extant, especially Gerber?s old and new musical Lexicon as well as Fétis?s ?Biographie Universelle des Musiciens.? What has been borrowed from other works will be indicated in the course of the narrative. The great courtesy of Herr Friedrich Grützmacher, the Royal Concert-director of Saxony, in placing at my disposal his extensive collection of old and new Violoncello Literature, has been of especial value to me in my undertaking. By its means I have been enabled to find my way through the historical development of Violoncello composition. I willingly seize this opportunity of expressing my thanks to him for it. V. WASIELEWSKI. Sondershausen, December, 1888. TRANSLATOR?S PREFACE. It may be that we are not a musical people, but if so the encouragement and appreciation which the sister Art to painting has of late years received in England is not a proof of the truth of the assertion frequently made. Our Concert-rooms are always crowded to overflowing; foreign artists think it worth while to come year by year to England; schools of music are multiplying, and eagerly attended by amateurs as well as professionals; and I think it may now be taken for granted that a musical education may be as thoroughly acquired here as abroad. Every kind of musical instrument is taken up, if not always with a really serious intention; but no instrument has more rapidly or more certainly come into favour amongst all lovers of music, as well with those who study as with those who listen, than the Violoncello. It is therefore somewhat surprising that up to the present time no book has been published in English, either as regarding its History or its Literature. This consideration, as well as the hope that not only those who devote themselves to the Violoncello, either as professors or amateurs, may be interested in its History, but also the general musical public who delight in listening to its deeply pathetic tones as produced by the great masters of it, has induced me to attempt the translation of Mr. Wasielewski?s interesting work. We love to know and often take pains to enquire into the history of any favourite picture, to learn something of the artist?s life, the circumstances under which he painted it, and often the origin of its conception. I therefore hope that the story of the Violoncello will be acceptable to all who love it and give their lives to the development of its many beauties and capabilities. The account of the Violoncello?s forerunner, the Viola da Gamba, cannot but be especially interesting, this instrument having been formerly cultivated in England to so great an extent. The frequent allusions which Praetorius in his ?Syntagma Musicum? makes to English Gamba players, with a decided preference to their manner of playing and tuning their instruments, is a proof of how high their reputation was abroad; and if any further evidence were wanting the dictum of Mersennus that English Gambists excelled all other nations in Gamba playing, is sufficient to show that in the sixteenth and part of the seventeenth centuries they held the first rank. If for a short period we have no violoncellist of extraordinary merit to chronicle, more modern times have produced artists who will bear comparison with any of the greatest players on the Continent. Concerning these and English Gamba players I have ventured to add a few more particulars than Mr. Wasielewski has given, hoping they would prove interesting to English readers.   Old and New Paris, v. 1 / Its History, its People, and its Places, by Henry Sutherland Edwards : (full image Illustrated) Henry Sutherland Edwards (Author) B00COAFPAY File Size: 9757 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- OLD AND NEW PARIS / Its History, its People, and its Places BY H. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS AUTHOR OF ?IDOLS OF THE FRENCH STAGE? ?THE GERMANS IN FRANCE? ?THE RUSSIANS AT HOME? ETC. ETC. VOL. I WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS C A S S E L L AND C O M P A N Y LIMITED LONDON PARIS & MELBOURNE 1893 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PARIS: A GENERAL GLANCE. CHAPTER II. THE EXPANSION OF PARIS Lutetia?La Cité?Lutetia taken by Labienus?The Visit of Julian the Apostate?Besieged by the Franks?The Norman Invasion?Gradual Expansion from the Île de la Cité to the Outer Boulevards?M. Thiers?s Line of Outworks CHAPTER III. THE LEFT BANK AND THE RIGHT. Paris and London?The Rive Gauche?The Quartier Latin?The Pantheon?The Luxemburg?The School of Medicine?The School of Fine Arts?The Bohemia of Paris?The Rive Droite?Paris Proper?The ?West End? CHAPTER IV. NOTRE DAME. The Cathedral of Notre Dame, a Temple to Jupiter?Cæsar and Napoleon?Relics in Notre Dame?Its History?Curious Legends?The ?New Church??Remarkable Religious Ceremonies?The Place de Grève?The Days of Sorcery??Monsieur de Paris??Dramatic Entertainments?Coronation of Napoleon CHAPTER V. SAINT-GERMAIN-L?AUXERROIS The Massacre of St. Bartholomew?The Events that preceded it?Catherine de Medicis?Admiral Coligny??The King-Slayer??The Signal for the Massacre?Marriage of the Duc de Joyeuse and Marguerite of Lorraine CHAPTER VI. THE PONT-NEUF AND THE STATUE OF HENRI IV. The Oldest Bridge in Paris?Henri IV.?His Assassination by Ravaillac?Marguerite of Valois?The Statue of Henri IV.?The Institute?The Place de Grève CHAPTER VII. THE BOULEVARDS. From the Bastille to the Madeleine?Boulevard Beaumarchais?Beaumarchais?The Marriage of Figaro?The Bastille?The Drama in Paris?Adrienne Lecouvreur?Vincennes?The Duc d?Enghien?Duelling?Louis XVI CHAPTER VIII. THE BOULEVARDS (continued). Hôtel Carnavalet?Hôtel Lamoignon?Place Royale?Boulevard du Temple?The Temple?Louis XVII?The Theatres?Astley?s Circus?Attempted Assassination of Louis Philippe?Trial of Fieschi?The Café Turc?The Cafés?The Folies Dramatiques?Louis XVI. and the Opera?Murder of the Duke of Berri CHAPTER IX. THE BOULEVARDS (continued). The Porte Saint-Martin?Porte Saint-Denis?The Burial Place of the French Kings?Funeral of Louis XV.?Funeral of the Count de Chambord?Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle?Boulevard Poissonnière?Boulevard Montmartre?Frascati CHAPTER X. BOULEVARD AND OTHER CAFÉS. The Café Littéraire?Café Procope?Café Foy?Bohemian Cafés?Café Momus?Death of Molière?New Year?s Gifts CHAPTER XI. THE BOULEVARDS (continued). The Opéra Comique of Paris?I Gelosi?The Don Juan of Molière?Madame Favart?The Saint-Simonians CHAPTER XII. THE BOULEVARDS (continued). La Maison Dorée?Librairie Nouvelle?Catherine II. and the Encyclopædia?The House of Madeleine Guimard CHAPTER XIII. PLACE DE LA CONCORDE. Its History?Louis XV.?Fireworks?The Catastrophe in 1770?Place de la Révolution?Louis XVI.?The Directory CHAPTER XIV. THE PLACE VENDÔME. The Column of Austerlitz?The Various Statues of Napoleon Taken Down?The Church of Saint-Roch?Mlle. Raucourt?Joan of Arc CHAPTER XV. THE JACOBIN CLUB. The Jacobins?Chateaubriand?s Opinion of Them?Arthur Young?s Descriptions?The New Club CHAPTER XVI. THE PALAIS ROYAL. Richelieu?s Palace?The Regent of Orleans?The Duke of Orleans?Dissipation in the Palais Royal?The Palais National?The Birthplace of Revolutions CHAPTER XVII. THE COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE. Its History?The Roman Comique?Under Louis XV.?During the Revolution?Hernani CHAPTER XVIII. THE NATIONAL LIBRARY AND THE BOURSE. The ?King?s Library??Francis I. and the Censorship?The Imperial Library?The Bourse CHAPTER XIX. THE LOUVRE AND THE TUILERIES. The Louvre?Origin of the Name?The Castle?Francis I.?Catherine de Medicis?The Queen?s Apartments?Louis XIV. and the Louvre?The Museum of the Louvre?The Picture Galleries?The Tuileries?The National Assembly?Marie Antoinette?The Palace of Napoleon III.??Petite Provence? CHAPTER XX. THE CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES AND THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE. The Champs   Old and New Paris, v. 2 / Its History, its People, and its Places, by Henry Sutherland Edwards : (full image Illustrated) (VOL. II) Henry Sutherland Edwards (Author) B00CO9U5Y6 File Size: 9360 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- Old and New Paris, v. 2 / Its History, its People, and its Places Author: Henry Sutherland Edwards AUTHOR OF ?IDOLS OF THE FRENCH STAGE? ?THE GERMANS IN FRANCE? ?THE RUSSIANS AT HOME? ETC. ETC. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. STREET CHARACTERS. The ?Cocher??The Bus-driver?The Private Coachman?The Hackney Coachman?The Public Writer?The Flower-girl?The Oyster-woman CHAPTER II. THE ENGLISH AND AMERICANS IN PARIS. The Englishman Abroad?M. Lemoinne?s Analysis?The Englishwoman?Sunday in London and in Paris?Americans in Paris?The American Girl CHAPTER III. MORE PARISIAN TYPES. The Spy?Under Sartines and Berryer?Fouché?Delavau?The Present System?The Écuyère?The Circus in Paris CHAPTER IV. THE DOMESTIC. The French Servant, as described by Léon Gozlan and by Mercier?The Cook and the Cordon Bleu?The Valet CHAPTER V. PARISIAN CHARACTERISTICS. Parisian Characteristics?Gaiety, Flippancy Wit?A String of Favourite Anecdotes CHAPTER VI. THE STREETS. The Arrangement of the Streets?System of Numbering the Houses?Street Nomenclature?Street Lamps?The Various Kinds of Vehicles in Use CHAPTER VII. THE SEINE AND ITS BRIDGES.?THE MORGUE. The Various Bridges over the Seine?Their Histories?The Morgue?Some Statistics CHAPTER VIII. THE REFORMATION IN PARIS. D?Étaples, the Pioneer of the Reformation?Nicolas Cop and Calvin?Progress of the Reformation?Persecutions?Catharine de Médicis?St. Bartholomew?s?The Edict of Nantes CHAPTER IX. THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS AND THE COLLEGE OF FRANCE. The French Educational System?Lycées and Collèges?The University of Paris?The College of France CHAPTER X. THE SORBONNE. Robert de Sorbonne?The Sorbonne, its Origin and History?Richelieu?The Revolution?The New Sorbonne?Mercier?s Views CHAPTER XI. THE INSTITUTE. The Institute?Its Unique Character?The Objects of its Projectors?Its Constitution CHAPTER XII. THE ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE. The Académie Française?Its Foundation by Richelieu?Its Constitution?The ?Forty-first Chair? CHAPTER XIII. THE PANTHÉON. The Church of Clovis?The Church of Sainte-Geneviève?France in the Thirteenth Century?The Building of the New Church under Louis XV.?Mirabeau and the Constituent Assembly?The Church of Sainte-Geneviève becomes the Panthéon. 59 CHAPTER XIV. THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL. The ?Central School of Public Works??Bonaparte and the Polytechnic?The College of Navarre?Formal Inauguration in 1805?1816?1830 67 CHAPTER XV. THE HÔTEL CLUNY. The Rue des Carmes?Comte de Mun and the Catholic Workmen?s Club?The Place Maubert?The Palais des Thermes?The Hôtel Cluny?Its History?Its Art Treasures 71 CHAPTER XVI. THE MUSÉE D?ARTILLERIE. The Museum of Artillery?Its Origin and History?The Growth of its Collection of Armour and Weapons of all Kinds CHAPTER XVII. THE VAL DE GRÂCE?RELICS OF THE GREAT. The Deaf and Dumb Institution?The Val de Grâce?Hearts as Relics?Royal Funerals?The Church of Saint-Denis CHAPTER XVIII. THE CATACOMBS: THE OBSERVATORY. Origin of the Catacombs?The Quarries of Mont Souris?The Observatory?Marshal Ney?The School of Medicine CHAPTER XIX. THE ODÉON: THE LUXEMBURG PALACE. The Odéon?Its History?Erection of the Present Building in 1799?Marie de Médicis and the Luxemburg Palace?The Judicial Annals of the Luxemburg?Trials of Fieschi and Louvel?Trial of Louis Napoleon?Trial of the Duc de Praslin CHAPTER XX. THE PRISONS OF PARIS. La Santé?La Roquette?The Conciergerie?The Mazas?Sainte-Pélagie?Saint-Lazare?Prison Regulations CHAPTER XXI. THE PARIS ZOO. The Jardin des Plantes?Its Origin and History?Under Buffon?The Museum of Natural History?The Tobacco Factory CHAPTER XXII. SOME HISTORICAL BUILDINGS. Abailard and Héloise?Fulbert?s House in the Rue des Chantres?The Philip Augustus Towers?The Hôtel Barbette?The Hôtel de Sens CHAPTER XXIII. THE MONT-DE-PIÉTÉ. ?Uncle? and ?Aunt??Organisation of the Mont-de-Piété?Its Various Branches?Its Warehouses and Sale-rooms CHAPTER XXIV. PARIS MARKETS. The Halles-Centrales?The Cattle Markets?Agriculture in France?The French Peasant   A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, by Clara Erskine Clement : (full image Illustrated) CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT (Author) B00CPBV0N8 File Size: 3863 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, by Clara Erskine Clement : (full image Illustrated) A HISTORY OF ART FOR BEGINNERS AND STUDENTS PAINTING?SCULPTURE?ARCHITECTURE WITH COMPLETE INDEXES AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT AUTHOR OF ?HANDBOOK OF LEGENDARY AND MYTHOLOGICAL ART,? ?PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, ENGRAVERS, ARCHITECTS AND THEIR WORKS,? ?ARTISTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,? ETC. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Ancient Painting, from the Earliest Times to the Christian Era Egypt Assyria Babylon Ancient Greece and Italy Mosaics Paintings on Stone Vase-painting CHAPTER II. Mediæval Painting, from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Renaissance The Early Period The Central, or Romanesque Period The Final, or Gothic Period CHAPTER III. Painting in Italy, from the Beginning of the Renaissance to the Present Century CHAPTER IV. Painting in Flanders, Holland, and Germany CHAPTER V. Painting in Spain CHAPTER VI. Painting in France CHAPTER VII. Painting in England INDEX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Harp-player (from an Egyptian painting) King Ramesses II. and his Sons Storming a Fortress (from Abousimbel) Fragment of an Assyrian Tile-painting Sacrifice of Iphigenia (from a Pompeian wall-painting) Etruscan Wall-painting Human Sacrifice Offered by Achilles to the Shade of Patroklos (from an Etruscan wall-painting) The Aldobrandini Marriage (from a wall-painting in the Vatican) Landscape Illustration to the Odyssey (from a wall-painting discovered on the Esquiline at Rome) The Flight of Æneas (from a wall-painting) Demeter Enthroned (from a Pompeian wall-painting) Pompeian Wall-painting Nest of Cupids (from a Pompeian wall-painting) Doves Seated on a Bowl (from a mosaic picture in the Capitol, Rome) Niobe (from a picture on a slab of granite at Pompeii) The Dodwell Vase Scene in the Lower World (from a vase of the style of Lower Italy) Moses (from a painting in the Catacomb of S. Agnes) Decoration of a Roof (Catacomb of S. Domitilla) Justinian, Theodora, and Attendants (from a mosaic picture at S. Vitalis, Ravenna) The Discovery of the Herb Mandragora (from a MS. of Dioskorides, at Vienna) King David (from a window in Augsburg Cathedral) Window (from the Cathedral of St. Denis) Figure of Henry I. in west window of Strasbourg Cathedral Birth of the Virgin (from the Grandes Heures of the Duc de Berri) The Annunciation (from the Mariale of Archbishop Arnestus of Prague) Painted Window at Konigsfelden Portrait of Cimabue The Madonna of the Church of Santa Maria Novella Portrait of Dante, painted by Giotto Giotto?s Campanile and the Duomo (Florence) Fra Angelico (from the representation of him in the fresco of the ?Last Judgment? by Fra Bartolommeo) An Angel (Fra Angelico) Christ (Gio. Bellini) Madonna (Perugino) Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper (Da Vinci) Mona Lisa (Da Vinci) Portrait of Michael Angelo The Prophet Jeremiah (Michael Angelo) Statue of Moses (Michael Angelo) The Madonna del Sacco (Sarto) Portrait of Raphael, painted by himself The Sistine Madonna (Raphael) St. Cecilia Listening to the Singing of Angels (Raphael) Portrait of Titian (Caracci) Portrait of Lavinia (Titian) Portrait of Correggio Upper Part of a Fresco by Correggio Lower Part of a Fresco by Correggio Communion of St. Jerome (Domenichino) Aurora (Guido Reni) Beatrice Cenci (Guido Reni) The Anchorites (Van Eyck) The Sibyl and the Emperor Augustus (Van der Weyden) Rubens and his Second Wife The Return from Egypt (Rubens) Portrait of an Officer (Hals) One of Rembrandt?s Portraits of Himself The Lecture on Anatomy (Rembrandt) Burgomaster Meier Madonna (Holbein) From Holbein?s Dance of Death A Scene from Dürer?s Wood Engravings of the Life of the Virgin Mary The Four Apostles (Dürer) Laughing Peasant (Velasquez) The Topers (Velasquez) The Immaculate Conception (Murillo) Arcadian Shepherds (Poussin) The Sabine Women (David) Death of the Duke of Guise (Delaroche) Sir Joshua Reynolds The Marriage Contract (Hogart   The Heritage of Dress / Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes by Wilfred Mark Webb : (full image Illustrated) WILFRED MARK WEBB (Author) B00CTOTE66 File Size: 3011 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- The Heritage of Dress / Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes by Wilfred Mark Webb : (full image Illustrated) THE HERITAGE OF DRESS BEING NOTES ON THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF CLOTHES BY WILFRED MARK WEBB FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON CURATOR OF ETON COLLEGE MUSEUM WITH ELEVEN PLATES AND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE FIGURES IN THE TEXT LONDON E. GRANT RICHARDS 1907 PREFACE It would be difficult to find a subject of more universal interest than that of dress, and hosts of books have been written which deal with the attire that has been adopted at different times and by various nations or social classes. The ornamental and artistic sides of the question have also received much consideration, but the volumes that have appeared serve chiefly as works of reference. The present book aims at being of more immediate interest and usefulness; it starts with things as they are, and is really a popular contribution to the natural history of man. On all sides the advantages of observation and the need for the nature-study method in education are being rightly urged, but there is a tendency to narrow the purview. Anything in our environment is worthy of notice, and though attention is well directed towards that which is least artificial, we should not leave man and his works altogether on one side. There is material for observation, research, and deduction, even in a bowler hat and a cut-away coat. One of the pleasantest features in connection with the making of this book has been the kind and ready help which I have received from all sides. Here and there throughout the text the names of friends and correspondents who have given their assistance have been mentioned. To these I offer my hearty thanks, as well as to the following, who with suggestions, information, or with material for illustrations, have contributed in no small way to the interest of the book: Messrs. Fownes Brothers & Company, Mr. Allan A. Hooke, Mr. W. S. Ward, Mr. Karl, of Messrs. Nathan & Company, Messrs. Tress & Company, Messrs. Lincoln & Bennett, Mr. M. D. Hill, the Rev. A. W. Upcott, Head Master of Christ?s Hospital, Miss Clark, Miss Hodgson, the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, Mr. Henry Miller, of the Church Association, Mr. Ravenscroft, of Messrs. Ede Sons & Ravenscroft, Mr. Paley Baildon, Mr. George Hertslet, of the Lord Chamberlain?s Office, Messrs. Wilkinson & Company, Mr. C. M. Mühlberg, Mr. W. S. Parker, of Messrs. Debenhams, Ltd., Capt. H. Trench, Major J. W. Mallet, of the Army and Navy Gazette, Mr. Basil White, of Messrs. Hawkes & Company, Mr. W. H. Jesson, Messrs. Souter & Company, Mr. William Lawrence, Mr. Heather Bigg, Dr. J. Cantlie, and the Rt. Hon. Viscountess Harberton. CONTENTS 1. THE THRALL OF DRESS PAGE The principles of evolution applied to clothes 2. THE ORIGIN OF DRESS 3. DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN COAT The ancestral shawl?Problematical buttons 4. BUTTONS AS CHRONICLES Episodes in the later history of the coat and cuffs 5. COLLARS AND BANDS Nicks in coat lapels?The why and wherefore of the white shirt front 6. VESTIGES IN THE HAT How hats were evolved?Why plumes are on the left side?The growth of the busby?Helmets and cocked hats 7. SHOES AND STOCKINGS Early foot-gear?The origin of the clock?A modern imitation of tattooing?Gaily coloured garters 8. PETTICOATS AND TROUSERS The belted plaid and kilt?Early skirts?The antiquity of trousers?Trouser stripes 9. COATS OF ARMS Signet rings?Armorial bearings?Escutcheons?Crests?Badges 10. GLOVES AND MITTENS Origin of the baby?s glove?Fourchettes?The ?points? on the backs of gloves 11. TAGS, PINS, AND BALDRICS Laces?The evolution and vagaries of the safety-pin?Primitive methods of carrying burdens as illustrated by muff-chains, baldrics, and yokes 12. ORNAMENTS Primitive necklaces?Finger rings?The origin of the hair comb?Buttons?Studs?Flowers?Feathers?Amulets 13. HAIR DRESSING Head shaving?Wigs that are still worn?Roman curls and fringes 14. SPECIAL DRESSES Fashions kept   [Prev] 1 ... 1 2 3 4 5 ... 5 [Next]