Year Book Volume 6 (Paperback)

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. 1907 Excerpt: ...types of weary toiling--are those oracles revealed, But in whispers from the Viewless, voices from the dread Unknown And in thoughts whose holy beauty seems to come from God alone Far amid th' eternal vastness, floats a gleam of coming bliss, As if that sublime existence were foreshadowed unto this; And the spirit, starward leaping, toward the bound by Thought untrod, Burns to leave its mortal dwelling and be nearer unto God With a kingly sense of knowledge, shall it mount before the sun, Adding realms of conquered darkness to the empire it has won; There the lore of God's own teaching, will the angelmind employ, And in active being blossom the immortal flowers of joy Only thus the soul can fathom all its longings, all its powers--Only thus, in raptured being, live through Heaven's eternal hours; For the glory and the beauty, which have made it thus sublime, Cannot perish, but stream upward, through the endless deeps of Time I (Signed) J. Bayard Taylor Aug. 18,1846. THE HIGHEST QUALITY IN ENGRAVING THE HIGHEST QUALITY IN ENGRAVING A HINT TO COLLECTORS BY W. F. HOPSON "You might cut out any square inch from a portion of his pictures Rembrandt's and wear it as a jewel." Mempes. In every manifestation of the Graphic Arts there is one beauty of form or drawing, another beauty of composition or arrangement, another beauty of chiaroscuro or light and shade, and in painting there is, of course, beauty of color; qualities which, excepting this last of color, every engraving may share with every other form of picture making. And it has even been held that engraving can suggest color. Be that as it may, each form of art has some merit peculiar to itself, some beauty and interest all its own, supreme above its fellows. The true connoisseur will see and en...