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หน้า 221 - Eskimo, whose manners and customs h • describes. He next returned to Herschel Island and made a voyage to Banks Land in a steam whaler. There, too, the failure of an expected tender to arrive from San Francisco again defeated his hopes of procuring supplies. Consequently he once more threw in his lot with the Eskimo, between the Mackenzie Delta and Liverpool Bay, and spent a year among them. ANNOUNCEMENTS— Continued ON SAFARI. Big Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird Life....
หน้า 222 - In them he has endeavoured to establish a standpoint from which architecture should be studied and practised. His general position is that architecture is an art with a definite technique of its own, which cannot be translated into terms either of ethics or of any of the other arts, and the development of this thesis involves a somewhat searching criticism of the views on architecture advanced by Ruskin and Morris. The first four lectures deal with the study of architecture — its relation to personal...
หน้า 222 - For a basis of study of Eastern art, writes Mr. Binyon, ' the public at present has nothing but a few general misconceptions." He therefore puts forward his volume with the modest hope that it ' may not be thought too presumptuous an attempt to survey the achievement and to interpret the aims of Oriental painting, and to appreciate it from the standpoint of a European in relation to the rest of the world's art. It is the general student and lover of painting,' he continues, ' whom I have wished to...
หน้า 108 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
หน้า 221 - ... remarkably interesting reminiscences, which extend over half a century. They include, mostly in anecdotal form, life-like portraits of the author's father, the first Baron Tollemache (another Coke of Norfolk, but with more eccentricities), and of Dr. Vaughan of Harrow. The author's years at Harrow, of which he records his memories, were from 1850 to 1856, and those at Oxford from 1856 to 1860. The book contains, besides, a number of characteristic stories, now for the first time given to the...
หน้า 91 - I would that with feet Unsandalled, unshod. Overbold, overfleet, I had swum not nor trod From Arcadia to Calydon northward, a blast of the envy of God.
หน้า 228 - ... four typical structures — two roof trusses and two bridges — worked out with full arithmetical calculation of stresses. There is a minimum of theory, and the author's object has been to make the methods of design so clear as to enable students and engineers to proceed to design independently. 1 6 Mr. Edward Arnold's List of New Books THE BODY AT WORK. By ALEX HILL, MA, MD, FRCS, SOMETIME MASTER OF DOWNING COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. AUTHOR OF 'AN INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE,' 'THE PHYSIOLOGIST'S NOTE-BOOK,
หน้า 221 - Demy 8vo. i2s. 6d. net. The white North continues to exert its magnetism upon British explorers. Mr. Harrison's object was to explore the unknown region off the North American Coast of the Arctic Ocean, but he first travelled 1,800 miles by waterway through Northern Canada, till he arrived at the delta of the Mackenzie River. There he was frozen in and delayed for three months. He then continued his journey to the Arctic Ocean with dogs, but was obliged to abandon his supplies. He hoped to obtain...
หน้า 179 - If she married your Giuseppe You and he will have to part — TESS. (to GIA.). If I have to do it I'll warrant she'll rue it — I'll teach her to marry the man of my heart ! TESS.
หน้า 220 - BIRD LIFE ON THE BORDERS,' 'WILD SPAIN,' ETC. With about 200 Illustrations by the AUTHOR and E. CALDWELL. Demy 8vo. i6s. net. The author of this fascinating book is a well-known ornithologist, as well as a mighty hunter and traveller. He takes us ' on safari ' (ie, on trek) through a new African region — a creation of yesterday, Imperially speaking, since British East Africa only sprang into existence during the current...