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First published in 1926, this volume contains a detailed guide to drawing, with a special focus on drawing the human body. 'The Art And Craft Of Drawing' deals with both practice and theory, and is highly recommended for both beginners and those looking to further hone their artistic skills. Contents include: 'Introduction', 'Relations Between Composition and Drawing', 'Technical Methods', 'Mass Equilibrium', 'Perspective' , 'The Main Masses o...

PREFACE. The absence of a book on the American Foxhound, devoted to the notable strains in all parts of the country, and the widespread and increasing interest and popularity of the breed, has induced the publisher, with the generous aid of some of our best known foxhound men, to compile and place a work at the disposal of the hunting world embodying not only the ideas of invidual hunting men, but concrete facts, the consensus of opinion of th...

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.

PREFACE I AM one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared. At Chelsea I found myself a unit of the 2nd London Irish Battalion, afterwards I was drilled into shape at the White City and training was concluded at St. Albans, where I was drafted into the 1st Battalion. In my spare time I wrote several articles dealing w...

Overall hangs the major question, can man-made pollution affect the delicate energy balance of the Arctic, and precipitate major climatic change worldwide?

This book is about emerging informal responses to unemployment in Malawi. To the bicycle taxi and handcart operators who are at the centre of the book, informality is a means for negotiating newer experiences and challenges associated with urbanisation. Jimu richly documents how informal economy activities continue to represent grassroots responses to widespread poverty, unavailability of meaningful employment opportunities and the failure of ...

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PREFACE WAR has taught surgeons once more the value of Lord Listers work on the use of antiseptics in Wound Treatment, and now it has been proved that with their aid primary union after suture of infected, suppurating wounds is possible. A long surgical experience may be of the greatest value, but in my case it was a handicap, for it took me a long time to realise the truth of what I saw -so opposed was it to all ordinary surgical canons. This...

This subject, like many of the periods of the Civil War, has been often described, and is familiar to .the passing generation, but has, I believe, never before been placed upon your records, , nor by an eye witness. Therefore, I venture to present it here. TheTwentieth Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, in which I had the honor to be a First Lieutenant and Adju- tant, left Boston in the Autumn of 1861, for active service with the ar...

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PREFACE. Foreign languages and their literatures are becoming, more and more. objects of study among the American people. This is a natural consequence of the travels of Americans in Europe and of the constantly increasing intercourse between them and the many foreign immigrants coming to this country. . Among these, there are about 160, 000 Norwegians and 40, 000 Danes, and the knowledge of their language may be of practical as well as litera...

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PREFACE This volumc has been prepared to satisfy the demand for a systematic course of study dealing with the ignition systems used on aubomobiles, trucks, tractors, and airplanes. In preparing the text the authors have had in mind the needs of the men who have to install, adjust, and repair ignition systems in the factory and repair shop, as well as the needs of the automobile owner who desires a better understanding of the principles and con...

This vintage book contain Immanuel Kant's treatise, "Dreams of a Spirit-Seer - Illustrated by Dreams of Metaphysics". This fascinating volume is highly recommended for students of philosophy, and is not to be missed by the discerning collector of such literature. It has mystified readers since its first publication, with many seeing it as a skeptical attack on Emanuel Swedenborg's writings. Other critics, however, believe that Kant regarded Sw...

PREFACE When writing the preface of Mental Therapeutics, or How to Cure all Diseases With the Mind, the author did not dream of the fullness of joy with which he would be filled at sight of the glorious country that would come into view as he journeyed upward. If you have climbed the beautiful mountains and felt the impulse to fly like a bird to view quickly that dreamland and ocean beyond, you will know the exultation possessing him at the si...

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I sang a song to Rosamond Rose Only the wind in the twilight knows I sang a song to Jeanetta Jennie, She flung from her window a silver penny I sang a song to Matilda May, She took to her heels and ran away I sang a song to Susannah Sue, She giggled the whole of the verses through But nevertheless, as sweet as I can, Ill sing a song to Elizabeth Ann - The same little Ann as there you see Smiling as happy as happy carn be. And all that my song ...

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PREFACE. soon the Vale Tye will be withdrawn from circulation, the Eragny Press will continue its publications. The type will be that employed for the first time in the present volume. Collectors will perhaps be interested in a brief account of the origin of the Press a bibliography of the Eragny books up to the present departure, since in future the books will not only be decorated and printed under the immediate supervision of Mr. Pissarro, ...

PREFACE The class of 68 in the U. S. Naval Academy entered the naval arena at a time when matters connected with the sea were on the threshold of a great development. During their span of about half a century naval weapons and methods underwent change to an extent undreamed of before. In partial illustration of this are the two photographs in this book of my first ship in 1864, the U.S.S. Macedomia, a sailing frigate that had been captured fro...