Arthur Machin. The House of Souls. Cover Design and Illustration by Sidney Simes. London, E.Grant Richards, 1906.
cover photo via: L.W. Curry
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James Ward. The Principles of Ornament. Edited by George Aitchison. London, Chapman and Hall,1896.
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Marjorie Winslow. Mud Pies and Other Recipes. Illustrations by Erik Blegvad. Macmillen, 1961.
A summertime cookbook for your dolls.
This year we decided to finally visit the Sagrada Familia, Gaudí’s masterpiece, which just now got a construction permit. I went there 20 years ago, when you just showed up, threw a few bucks at them and then explored at your leisure. Now you have to book in advance, have a 15 Min window to enter and then have to go through security like at an airport. We bought “evening tickets” which are cheaper and give you an hour to explore the cathedral, which we deemed to be enough with the kids and also we wanted to see it again later in the dark. The entrance prices showed why the whole thing is absurd, since the kid who had to pay reduced admission was complaining and staring at her phone the whole time, while the kid who got in for free called it “the best thing she’d ever seen”.
Let’s start with the outside.
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You enter the cathedral through the “Birth Portal”. Why it’s called that we’ll see in a minute.
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You can clearly see the older and newer parts here.
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And here we have him, baby Jesus, apparently needing a bath in a tub.
Sarah Orne Jewett. The Country of the Pointed Firs. Boston, Houghton, Mifflen & Company, 1896
It’s Tuesday and this book serves double duty as a book cover and as a Tuesday Tree. That is just win-win.
Cover photo via: The Lambertville Library
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Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte (E.D.E.N.) Southworth. For Whose Sake. New York, A.L. Burt, 1912.
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Coridon’s Song and Other Verses. Various sources with and introduction by Austin Dobson and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London, MacMillen and Co., 1894
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Louise Clarkson Whitelock. Fly Away Fairies and Baby Blossoms. New York, E.P. Dutton and London, Griffith and Farran, 1882.
The artwork in this week’s fairy tale book is typical of the Victorian period. I’m not especially fond of this style of art, but I think this book is interesting because its fairies look a lot like like cherubs. I also think the eyes of the children in the book look dull and creepy which is an unexpected bit of a laugh in a children’s fairy story book.
This photo brings us to the end of the high-resolution fungal portraits sent in by Opus. All of the photos in this series have been quite interesting and it’s been fun to see the different types of fungus in such clear detail and vivid colour. Thanks, Opus.
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William Theodore Parkes. Spook Ballads. Illustrated by the author. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited, 1895.
A rather odd collection of ghost stories and poems.
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Sometimes a bumblebee lands, drinks a bit, and then flies off again like a little helicopter. Not these two though. They both took their time, going around the flower systematically in a circle, drinking as much as they can. And just when I was taking the pictures, one of them decided to take off.
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Nuff said.
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William J. Long. Beasts of the Field. Illustrated by Charles Copeland. Boston and London, Ginn and company, 1901.
The book is filled with true stories of animal encounters in the wild and the accompanying illustrations are charming. Every page has at least one small drawing on it and there are several detailed full-page illustrations. You can see it all at the link below.
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