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Updated: June 19, 2025
I had grown used to seeing piles of sleeping-suits, sleeping-bags, trench slippers, warm underclothes, sabots, all that is comprised in the word vêtement; but here were also immense boxes of books and magazines, donated by different firms and editors, about to be shipped to the dépôts; games of every sort; charming photogravures, sketches, prints, pictures, that would make the baraques gay and beloved all to be interspersed, however, with mottoes from famous writers calculated to elevate not only the morale but the morals of the idle.
At One Hundred Twelve Albany Street lives one Dixon, who takes marvelous photographs of animals in the Zoological Gardens, with a pocket camera, and then enlarges the pictures a hundred times. These pictures go the round world over and command big prices. Mr. Dixon was taking for me, at the National Gallery, the negatives from which I made photogravures for my Ruskin-Turner book. Mr.
'It's like Moses or was it Aaron? Noel thought absurdly Memory had complete hold of her. All the old days! Nursery hours on Sundays after tea, stories out of the huge Bible bound in mother-o'pearl, with photogravures of the Holy Land palms, and hills, and goats, and little Eastern figures, and funny boats on the Sea of Galilee, and camels always camels.
By Clara Erskine Clement, author of "Naples," "Queen of the Adriatic," etc. Handsomely illustrated with full-page photogravures from original photographs. Small 8vo, cloth, substantially uniform in style with series of "Italian Cities Illustrated." with slip cover, in cloth case. $3.00.
Clarke looked so powerful, so tremendous; even Lovelace himself was not much greater. He wondered vaguely what would be said to them. And indeed Clarke was even more imposing in his own study. The back of the room sloped down into a low alcove in which hung strange Egyptian curtains. The walls were decorated with a few Pre-Raphaelite photogravures. Behind the door was a pile of cases.
By Clara Erskine Clement, author of "A Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art," etc. Handsomely illustrated with twenty full-page photogravures from recent photographs of the principal points of interest. Small 8vo, vellum cloth, illuminated in gold and colors, gilt tops, with slip cover, in cloth case. $3.00. Great Cities of the World. Or, Constantinople, the Sentinel of the Bosphorus.
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