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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Comprising a Ballade, wherein the Wrongfulness of Art Collecting is conceded, and as well Certain Stories: Campbell Corot, which recounts the career of an able and candid Picture Forger. The del Puente Giorgione, which tells of an artful Great Lady and an Artless Expert. The Lombard...

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. W...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

King Ponthus and the Fair Sidone is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly p...

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Excerpt from The Portraits of Dante Compared With the Measurement of His Skull and ReclassifiedLimited scope of the study - p. 1, Boccaccio's description of Dante pp. 1-2, was Dante bearded and light haired - p. 2, discovery of Dante's bones - p. 3, the reconstruction of the skull from the measurements - p. 4, missing measurements unimportant - p. 5, use Of the skull diagram for checking purposes illustrated with the so-called death-mask - pp....

Excerpt from The Collectors: Being Cases Mostly Under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments Of the seven stories of art collecting that make up this book Campbell Corot and the Missing St. Michael first appeared under the pseudonym of Francis Cotton, in Scrib ner's Magazine, and are now reprinted by its courteous permission. Similar acknowledg ment is due the Nation for allowing the sketch on art collecting to be republished. Many readers will not...

Excerpt from Estimates in Art Now, the dilemma of every artistic life is to strike the just balance between reflection and execution. Obviously, execution cannot safely be neglected. Even Claude attained a decent adequacy in this regard. And because be te fused to do more, his case is peculiarly instruc tive. It is as if he felt so keenly the impor tance of the original constructive vision that he declined to blunt or complicate it through ex...

Excerpt from Old Deep River I would like to say, preliminarily, to the friends who have so kindly assembled, that it has long lain on my mind and heart that the traditions of the early, formative, life of the Village ought to be handed down alike in justice to the Pioneers and to the genera tions succeeding them. It would have been a relief to me to have found someone better equipped for the task, but I could find no one reaching back to the...

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Excerpt from King Ponthus and the Fair Sidone: A Prose Romance Translated From the French About the Year 1450Just as the story of Melusine was written to glorify the family of Lusignan so the romance of Ponthus was written in honor of a member of the famous Tour Landry family of Anjou. Montaiglon, in the introduction to his edition of Le I/ivre da Chevalier de La Tour Landry' (paris, has collected the little that is known of the Ponthus de La ...

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