Descriptive List of the Five Hundred and Forty Eight Books Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company and Exhibited in the Model Library of the American Library Association at the Chicago Exposition of 1893
Descriptive List of the Five Hundred and Forty Eight Books Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company and Exhibited in the Model Library of the American Library Association at the Chicago Exposition of 1893
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...William Curtis. the reader into love of the scene, if not of the His descriptions of nature are glowing with writer, and fill his memory with sweet and pleasant vitality. He loved every tree and shrub. His images of the beauty and mystery of Nature.--pictures are true to life, and inspired with passion. The Independent ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...William Curtis. the reader into love of the scene, if not of the His descriptions of nature are glowing with writer, and fill his memory with sweet and pleasant vitality. He loved every tree and shrub. His images of the beauty and mystery of Nature.--pictures are true to life, and inspired with passion. The Independent (New York). A Yankee in Canada, with Antislavery and Reform Papers. Included in Excursions in Field and Forest, and Miscellanies, of the new Riverside Edition.. Thurston, Robert H. Heat as a Form of Energy. In Riverside Science Series. i6mo, Small Pica type, 26i pp., $i.25. Contents: The Philosophers' Ideas of Heat; The Science of Thermodynamics; Heat Transfer and the World's Industries; Air and Gas Engines, their Work and their Promise; The Development of the SteamEngine; Summary and Conclusions. "Heat as a Form of Energy " is a capital book, nell University, and will deem his clear exposition written by one fully abreast with the theory of heat of the important subject of " Heat as a Form of and motion and familiar with the mechanical prac-Energy "as of especial interest in these days when tice of tchday.--New York Times. the engines of the ocean greyhounds are so fre Our readers will know that Professor Thurston quently astounding the world with Uieir perform is the distinguished head of Sibley College of Cor-ances.--Science (New York). Ticknor, George. History of Spanish Literature. New Edition revised. 3 vols., 8vo, Pica type, i85i pp., $i0.00. No one that has not been in Spain can feel half tory of the literature of Southern Europe, and the the merit of your work; but to those who have, it time that Haltam devoted to the history of three is a perpetual banquet.... You have laid the centuries of European literature, s...
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