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Engravers and Etchers
by Fitz Roy CarringtonWhen that most sensitive of American print-lovers, the late Francis Bullard, learned that I was to deliver at Harvard, each year, a course of lectures on the History and Principles of Engraving, he wrote me one of those characteristic letters which endeared him to his friends, concluding his wise counsels with these words: “Nothing original—get it ..
Why We Love Music
by Carl E. SeashoreWhy does a person love his sweetheart, his food, his safety, his social fellowship, his communion with nature, his God, approaches to the ultimate goals of truth, goodness, and beauty? The answer to each of these is a long story, involving not only common sense and scientific observation but a profound intuitive insight, a self-revelation. In all, ..
The origins of art
by Y. HirnThe aim and scope of this book is sufficiently indicated by its title. I have endeavoured throughout to restrict my attention to questions connected with the origins of art. Points of history and criticism have been touched upon only in so far as they appeared to contribute towards the elucidation of this purely psychological and sociological probl..
Turquois mosaic art in ancient Mexico
by Marshall H. SavilleThe writer has undertaken the present study of Mexican Turquois Mosaics in honor of the approaching opening to the public of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, the only institution devoted exclusively to the study of the aboriginal American peoples ever established; and the proximate International Congress of Americanists to be hel..
Practical House, Wagon and Automobile Painter
by W. F. WhiteWhen paint crawls it is because there is not sufficient adhesion between the undercoat and the new coat, caused usually by too much gloss on the undercoat. To prevent crawling subdue the gloss on the undercoat by sandpapering, rubbing, or by the application of some material which will have the desired effect; or, if on the outside, wait until the g..
Old Songs
by Various AuthorsA collection of poems written by many authors have been compiled and presented as A Love SongWhy canst Thou not, as Others doWith Jockey to the FairSweet Nelly, my Heart’s DelightWhat hap had I to Marry a ShrowThe Leather BottèlNever Love Thee MoreHere’s to the Maiden of Bashful FifteenBarbara AllenPerigot and Cuddy’s RoundelaySally in Our All..
Constantino Brumidi, Michelangelo of the United States Capitol
by Myrtle Cheney MurdockENSHRINED in the domed Rotunda of the United States Capitol, as in the Roman Pantheon from which it is descended, are the noblest hopes of a mighty Nation. Yet less fearful of incurring the wrath of an unpropitiated power than the ancients who raised a statue in their sacred temple to “The Unknown God,” the American people have neglected and all bu..
Pueblo pottery making
by Carl E. GutheThe present paper is a careful study by Dr. Guthe of pottery making at San Ildefonso, a typical Pueblo Indian town on the Rio Grande, north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The field-work was undertaken in 1921 as part of an archaeological survey of the Southwest, that has been carried on for a number of years by the Department of Archaeology of Phillips A..