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HAND-BOOK FOR YOUNG PAINTERS. LESLIE (C. K.). HAND-BOOK FOR YOUNG PAINTERS. Second edition, with illustrations. One volume 12mo., cloth......

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1. ON THE IMITATION OF NATURE, AND ON STYLE. 2. ON THE IMITATION OF ART. 3. ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LAWS AND RULES. 4. ON CLASSIFICATION. 5. ON SELF-TEACHING. 6. ON GENIUS, IMAGINATION, AND TASTE. 7. ON THE IDEAL, AND ON BEAUTY OF FORM. 8. ON DRAWING. 9. ON INVENTION AND EXPRESSION-INSTANCES FROM THE OLD MASTERS. 10. ON INVENTION AND EXPRESSION-INSTANCES FROM THE BRITISH SCHOOL. 11. ON COMPOSITION. 12. ON COLOR AND CHIAROSCURO. 13. ON THE COLOR OF RAPHAEL'S CARTOONS, AND THEIR PRESERVATION. 14, ON THE FLEMISH AND DUTCH PAINTERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 15. ON LANDSCAPE 16. ON PORTRAIT. 17. CONCLUSION.

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PROCTOR'S GREAT NEW WORK ON THE SUN. THE SUN: RULER, FIRE, LIGHT, AND LIFE OF THE PLANETARY SYSTEM. By RICHARD A. PROCTOR, B.A., F.R.A.S., &c. One volume smal: 8vo., with ten lithographic plates (seven colored) and 107 engravings on wood, cloth.............. PREFACE. INTRODUCTION. CHAP. 1. THE SUN'S DISTANCE AND DIMENSIONS. 2. THE SUN AS A RULER. 3. ANALYZING SUNLIGHT. 4. STUDY OF THE SUN'S SURFACE. 5. THE PROMINENCES AND THE CHROMOSPHERE. 6. THE CORONA AND ZODIACAL LIGHT. 7. PHYSICAL CONDITION OF THE SUN. 8. THE SUN-OUR FIRE, LIGHT, AND LIFE. 9. THE SUN AMONG HIS PEERS. 10. APPROACHING TRANSIT OF VENUS AND THE BEST MEANS OF OBSERVING THEM. 11. ECLIPSES. 12. PRINCIPAL SOLAR ELEMENTS. 13. TABLE FOR DETERMINING THE EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN VALUE OF SOLAR PARALLAX ON OUR ESTIMATE OF THE SUN'S DISTANCE.

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CHRISTIAN ART BY THE OLD GERMAN MASTERS.

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