Catalogue of the J. Morgan Slade Library and Other Architectural Works in the Apprentices' Library and Supplements No.1-12 to the Finding List of the Apprentices' Library

General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' Library

Press of J.J. Little & Company, 1892 - Architecture

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Page 19 - VOL. I. :— The Constitution of Nature— Radiation— On Radiant Heat in relation to the Colour and Chemical Constitution of Bodies— New Chemical Reactions produced by Light — On Dust and Disease — Voyage to Algeria to observe the Eclipse — Niagara — The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy — Alpine Sculpture — Recent Experiments on...

Page 17 - CONTENTS : Europe before the Arrival of Man; The Arrival of Man in Europe; Our Aryan Forefathers; What we learn from Old Aryan Words; Was there a Primeval Mother-Tongue ? Sociology and Hero-Worship; Heroes of Industry; The Causes of Persecution ; The Origins of Protestantism; The True Lesson of Protestantism ; Evolution and Religion; The Meaning of Infancy; A Universe of Mind-Stuff; In Memoriam: Charles Darwin.

Page 19 - Medallist of 1870— The Copley Medallist of 1871— Death by Lightning — Science and the Spirits. Vol. II. — Reflections on Prayer and Natural Law — Miracles and Special Providences — On Prayer as a Form of Physical Energy— Vitality— Matter and Force— Scientific...

Page 16 - Atoms, Molecules, and Ether Waves — Count Rumford — Louis Pasteur, his Life and Labours — The Rainbow and its Congeners — Address delivered at the Birkbeck Institution on October 22, 1884 — Thomas Young — Life in the Alps — About Common Water — Personal Recollections of Thomas Carlyle — On Unveiling the Statue of Thomas Carlyle — On the Origin, Propagation, and Prevention of Phthisis — Old Alpine Jottings — A Morning on Alp Lusgen.

Page 18 - Contents: The foreigner at home; Some college memories; Old mortality; A college magazine; An old Scotch gardener; Pastoral; The manse: Memoirs of an islet; Thomas Stevenson; Talk and talkers; The character of dogs; " A penny plain and twopence coloured;" A gossip on a novel of Dumas's; A gossip on romance; A humble remonstrance.

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Page 17 - Dumas — Mr. Stevenson's Works — Thomas Haynes Bayly — Theodore de Banville — Homer and the Study of Greek — The Last Fashionable Novel — Thackeray — Dickens — Adventures of Buccaneers — The Sagas — Kingsley — Lever — Poems of Sir Walter Scott — Bunyan — Letter to a Young Journalist — Kipling's Stories. "One of the most entertaining and bracing of books. It ought to win every vote and please every class of readers.

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• Title: Catalogue of the J. Morgan Slade Library and Other Architectural Works in the Apprentices' Library and Supplements No.1-12 to the Finding List of the Apprentices' Library; Catalogue of the J. Morgan Slade Library and Other Architectural Works in the Apprentices' Library and Supplements No.1-12 to the Finding List of the Apprentices' Library, General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' Library
• Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' Library
• Publisher: Press of J.J. Little & Company, 1892
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 14, 2008