Chapter XII (12)

Universals to particulars, i. 288

Universe, or Kosmos, the body of the invisible sun, i. 302;
doubt, i. 324;
how came it, i. 341;
the concrete image of the ideal abstraction, i. 342;
existed from eternity, _ib._;
passes through four ages, ii. 421;
a musical instrument, i. 514

Unknown presence, when witnessed, ii. 164;
the future self of man, ii. 165

Unregulated mediums punished, i. 489

Unrevealed God, i. 160

Unseen Universe, or all things there recorded, ii. 588;
spiritual universe, its existence demonstrated, ii. 15

Untrained mediumship illustrated by Socrates and his daimonion, ii.
117

Untenable dogmas of science, i. 501

Upasakes and Upasakis, Buddhistic semi-monastics, ii. 608

Uper-Ouranoi, i. 312

Vach, or sacred speech, ii. 409

Vaivaswata, the Hindu Noah, ii. 425

Valachian lady, her simulacrum brought to the author in her tent in
Mongolia, ii. 627, 628

Vampirism, a terrible case in Russia, i. 454

Vampire-governor, and his widow, i. 454, 455

Vampires, i. 319;
shedim, etc., i. 449;
magnetic, i. 462;
ghouls and, wandering about, ii. 564

Van Helmont, i. 50, 57;
on magnetism and will, i. 170;
on transmutation of earth into water, i. 190;
testimony of Deleuze, i. 194;
a Pythagorean, i. 205;
theory of man, i. 213;
remarkable account of a child born headless immediately after an
execution, i. 386;
on the power of woman’s imagination, i. 399;
testimony of Dr. Fournier, i. 400;
ridiculed for his directions for production of animals, i. 414

Vari-colored fragments of the beam of Divine Truth, ii. 639

Vasitva, power of mesmerizing, also of restraining the passions, i.
393

Vasaki, the great dragon, ii. 490

Vast inland sea of middle Asia, and its island, i. 589

Vatican, black magic practised there, ii. 6;
secret libraries, ii. 16, 19;
clergy, how an access, ii. 18

Vatou, or candidate, for initiation, ii. 98;
sensitive to spiritual influences, ii. 118

Vaughan, Thomas, anecdote of his attempted sale of gold, i. 504

Vedas, antedate the Bible, i. 91;
contain no such immodesty as the Bible, ii. 80;
older than the flood, ii. 427

Vedic words, the controversies of Sanscrit scholars, ii. 47;
peoples not all Aryans, ii. 413

Vedic Pitris, their worship fast becoming the worship of the
spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639

Vegetation, influence of the moon, i. 273;
influenced by musical tones, i. 514

Vehicle of life, ii. 418

Venerable “Mah,” ii. 388

Ventriloquists or pythiæ, i. 355

Ventura de Raulica, his letter asserting the existence of Satan as a
fundamental dogma of the Church, ii. 14

Vesica Piscis, a Zodiacal sign, ii. 255

Vicarious atonement, a ridiculous idea, i. 316

Vicarious atonement, ii. 542;
obliterates no wrong, ii. 545;
not known by Peter, ii. 546

Vigil-night of Siva, i. 446

Vincent, Frank, his description of the ruins of Nagkon-Wat, i. 562,
565

Vine, the symbol of blood and life, ii. 244;
Jesus, ii. 561;
his “Father” not God, but the hierophant, _ib._

Viracocha, the Peruvian deity, ii. 259

Viradji, the Son of God, his origin, ii. 111

Virgin, celestial, milk of, i. 64;
of the sea, crushes the dragon under her feet, ii. 446;
of the Zodiac, rises above the horizon, Dec. 25th, ii. 490;
Blessed, thrashing a demoniac, ii. 76;
Mary, declaring all pagans condemned to eternal torments, over her
own signature, ii. 8;
succeeded to the titles, symbols and rites of Isis, ii. 95;
on the crescent moon, like pagan goddesses, ii. 96;
queen of heaven, ii. _ib._;
mother without a husband, positivist, i. 81;
of the Avatar, Son-Ka-po, ii. 589

Virgin-mothers, Hindu, Egyptian, and Catholic, their epithets, ii. 209

Vishnu, takes the form of a fish, ii. 257;
same as Oannes, _ib._;
the Adam Kadmon of the kabalists, ii. 259;
his ten avatars, ii. 274;
symbolize evolution, ii. 275;
the expression of the whole universe, ii. 277

Vishnu-flower, ii. 467

Visible universe from Brahma-Prajapati, i. 348

Visions witnessed by initiates, ii. 113;
produced by sorcery, ii. 633

Visit to the Ladakh in Thibet, ii. 598

Visiting and leaving the body at home, ii. 604, 605

Vistaspa, a king of Bactriana, ii. 141

Visvamitra, his escape in the ark, ii. 257;
Egypt colonized in his reign, i. 627

Vital force, speculations of men of science, i. 466

Viti, Sancti, Chorœa, or St. Vitus’ Dance, ii. 625

Voices of spirits and goblins heard in the desert, i. 604

Volatile salts obnoxious to devils, i. 356

Volney, mistook ancient worship, i. 24;
his doctrine of God, i. 268

Voltaire, on the being of God, i. 268

Voluntary withdrawal of the spirit from the body, ii. 588

Votan, his admission to the snake’s hole as a son of the snakes, i.
553;
supposed by de Bourbourg to be descended from Ham and Canaan, i.
554;
the hero of the Mexicans, i. 545;
probably identical with Quetzel-coatl, _ib._;
intercourse with King Solomon, _ib._;
the navigating serpent, _ib._

Voodo orgy in Cuba, ii. 573

Vourdalak or vampires of Servia, i. 451, ii. 368

Vowels, the seven, chanted as a hymn to Serapis, i. 514

Vridda Manava, or laws of Manu, i. 585

Vril, Bulwer-Lytton’s designation of the one primal force, i. 64, 125

Vril-ya, the coming race, i. 296

Vulcan, Phta, or Hephaistos, represented at Nakyon-Wat, i. 565, 566

Vulgar magic in India, ii. 20

Vyasa, a positivist, i. 621;
denied a First Cause, ii. 261

Vyse, Col., found a piece of iron in the pyramid of Cheops, i. 542

Wagner, Prof. Nicholas, on heat and psychical force, i. 497;
on mediumistic phenomena, i. 499

Walking above the ground, i. 472;
the faculty sought by devotees, and attained by a King of Siam, ii.
618

Wallace, A. R., on cycles, i. 155;
belief in spiritualism and mesmerism, i. 177;
theory of human development, i. 294

War of Michael and the dragon, an old myth, ii. 486

Warrior, slain and resuscitated, but without a soul, ii. 564

War-chariots, ancient, lighter than modern artillery-wagons, i. 530;
had metallic springs, _ib._

Water, of Phtha, i. 64;
the first principle of things, i. 133;
an universal solvent, i. 133, 189;
of mercury, the soul or psychical substance, i. 309;
the first-created element, ii. 458

Waters turned to blood, i. 413, 415

Washing of images, ii. 138

Wave-theory of light not accepted by Prof. Cooke, i. 137

Weapons, dæmons afraid of, i. 362

Weekman, reputed the first investigator of spirit-phenomena in
America, i. 105

Weeks of seven days used in the East, ii. 418

Weird cries of the Gobi, i. 604

Weninger, Father F. X., a Jesuit priest, his denunciation of
Secretary Thompson, ii. 378, 379

Wesermann, power to influence the dreams of others, and to appear
double, i. 477

White-skinned people not often able to acquire magical powers, ii. 635

White stone of initiation, ii. 351

Whitney, Prof. W. D., his criticism of Max Müller, ii. 47;
denunciation of Jacolliot, _ib._;
his translation of a Vedic hymn, ii. 534

Widow-burning, or _suttee_, practised 2,500 years, but not when the
Code of Manu was compiled, i. 588;
sustained by the Brahmans from a forged verse of the _Rig-Veda_, i.
589

Widows burned without pain by the Brahmans, i. 540

Wild beasts will not attack Buddhistic nuns, ii. 609

Wilder, A., on possibility of transmutation, i. 505;
suggestion of another classification of the Assyrians and Mongols,
i. 575;
notes in regard to America, the Atlantic continent, Lemuria, and
the deserts of Africa and Asia, i. 592;
on skeptics, and respect for earnest convictions, i. 437;
on Paul and Plato, ii. 90;
on the designation Peter and the pretension of the Pope to be his
successor, ii. 92;
opinion of Zeruana, Turan, and Zohak, ii. 142;
description of Paul, ii. 574-6

Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, his testimony in regard to ancient Egyptian
civilization, i. 526;
J. J. G., declares truth temperamental, i. 234

Will, i. 56-61;
its potency in a state of ecstasy, i. 170;
produces force, i. 285;
an emanation of deity, _ib._;
power of, ii. 21;
enables one to wound or injure another, i. 360, 361;
generates force, and force generates matter, ii. 320

Will-force of the Yogis, ii. 565

Will-power, killing birds by it, i. 380;
photographing by, i. 463;
the most powerful of magnets, i. 472;
its exercise the highest form of prayer, ii. 592

Wine first sacred in the Bacchic Mysteries, ii. 514

Winged men of the _Phædrus_, i. 2

Wirdig taught that nature is ensouled, i. 207

Wisdom, the arcane doctrine of the ancients, i. 205, 436;
or the principle, ii. 35;
the chief, ii. 36;
first emanation of the En-Soph, ii. 37;
origin, ii. 218;
the ethnic parent of every religion, ii. 639, 640

Wisdom-doctrine underlay every ancient religion, ii. 99

Wisdom-religion, to be found in the pre-Vedic religion of India, ii.
39;
its articles of faith, ii. 116;
explained in Code of Manu, _ib._;
the parent cult, ii. 216

Wise women, ii. 525

Witch, a knowing woman, i. 354;
or kangalin, lawful for a Hindu to kill her, ii. 612

Witch-burnings in Germany, ii. 61;
twenty-nine, ii. 62, 63

Witchcraft, execution in Salem, and other American provinces, ii. 18;
laws in force in South Carolina in 1865, _ib._;
an offence among the ancients, ii. 98;
those guilty of it not initiates, ii. 117, 118

Witches, pretended, dozens of thousands burned, i. 353;
of the middle ages, the votaries of the former religion, ii. 502

Witches’ Sabbath, the orgies of Bacchus, ii. 528

Withdrawal of the inner from the outer man, ii. 583

Withdrawing of the inner from the outer, i. 476

Wittoba, the crucified image of Christna anterior to Christianity,
ii. 557

Wizard, a wise man, i. 354

Wolf, converted by St. Francis, ii. 77

Wolsey, Cardinal, accused of sorcery, ii. 57

Woman, of the future, i. 77;
fecundated artificially, i. 77, 81;
must cease to be the female of the men, i. 78;
ridding her of every maternal function, _ib._;
applying a latent force, _ib._;
offered to the encubi, _ib._;
impossible, i. 81;
evolved out of men, i. 297;
highly impressible when pregnant, i. 394;
exudes akasa as an odic emanation, i. 395;
how this is projected into the astral light or ether, and
repercussing, impresses itself upon the fœtus, _ib._;
evolved out of the lusts of matter, i. 433;
clothed with the sun, the goddess Isis, ii. 489

Women, magnetically influenced by the moon, i. 264

Women-colleges, to superintend worship, ii. 524, 525

Wong-Ching-Fu, his explanation of Nepang or Nirvana, ii. 319, 320

Wonder-working fakirs seldom to be seen, ii. 612, 613

Word, magical, i. 445;
ineffable, and performance of miracles, ii. 370;
lost by the Christians, _ib._;
where to be sought, ii. 371, ii. 418;
“long lost but now found,” ii. 393

World, how called into existence, i. 341;
how all will go well with it, ii. 122;
soul of, i. 129, 208, 215, 342;
religions, startled by utterances of scientists, i. 248, 249

World-religions, conflict between, i. 307;
identical at their starting-point, ii. 215;
the devil their founder, ii. 479

World-mountains, allegorical expressions of cosmogony, i. 157

World-soul, the source of all souls, and ether, i. 316

World-tree of knowledge, i. 574

Worlds, an incalculable number before the present one, ii. 424

Worship of the sun and serpent by Phœnicians and Mosaic Israelites,
i. 555;
of words, denounced, ii. 560;
of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639

Wounds, mortal, self-inflicted and healed, i. 224

Wreaths of green leaves for oracles, ii. 612

Wren, Sir Christopher, simply the Master of the London operative
masons, ii. 390

Wright, Thomas, on sorcery and magic, i. 356

Writings under the ban, ii. 8

X, decussation of the perfect circle, ii. 469

X., Dr. extraordinary scenes at a seance, i. 608-611

Xenophanes, his satire on the representations of God, ii. 242

Ximenes, cardinal, burned 80,000 Arabic manuscripts, i. 511

Xisuthrus or Hasisadra, sailed with the ark to Armenia, ii. 217;
translated to the gods, ii. 424;
Oannes and Vishnu in the first avatar, ii. 457

Yaho, an old Shemitic mystic name of the Supreme Being, ii. 297

Yadus migrating from India to Egypt, i. 444

Yang-kie and Mahu, dwellers in both worlds, i. 601, 602

Yakuts and their worship, ii. 568

Yarker, John jr., account of the dervishes, ii. 316;
his testimony in regard to Free-masonry, ii. 376

Year of blood, 1876, i. 439

Yezidis, or devil-worshippers genuine sorcerers, ii. 571;
their worship, ii. 572

Yggdrasill, i. 133;
universe springing up beneath its branches, i. 151

Ymir, the Norse giant, i. 147;
generates a race of depraved men, i. 148;
is slain by the sons of Bur, i. 150

Yogas or cycles, i. 293

Yogis of India, ii. 346;
their extraordinary powers, ii. 565;
regarded as demi-gods, ii. 612;
a peculiar medicine used by them composed of sulphur and juice of
a plant, ii. 621;
their longevity, ii. 620;
their medicinal preparation of sulphur and quicksilver, ii. 620

Yörmungand, the midgard or earth-serpent, i. 151

Yourodevoy, i. 28

Youth, the means of regaining, ii. 618

Yowahous, ii. 313

Yugas, i. 31

Yule, Colonel, on movable type, i. 515;
on spiritualism in Tartary, i. 600;
testimony in regard to spiritual flowers drawn by a medium in Bond
street, London, i. 601

Zacharias, saw an apparition in the temple, ass-formed, ii. 523

Zadokites, or Sadducees, made a priest-caste by David, ii. 297

Zampun, the Thibetan tree of life, i. 152

Zamzummim, the Cyclopeans, i. 567

Zarathustra-Spitoma, his untold antiquity, i. 12

Zarevna Militrissa and the serpent, i. 550

Zeller, criticism of the Fathers in regard to Plato, i. 288

Zequiel, a demon presented to Torralva, ii. 60

Zeno taught two eternal qualities in nature, i. 12

Zeru-Ishtar, a Chaldean or Magian high-priest, ii. 129

Zeruan, Saturn or Abraham, the legend of the Titans, ii. 217

Zeus, the æther, i. 187, 188

Zeus-Dionysus, i. 262

Zmeij Gorenetch, the dragon, i. 550

Znachar, the Russian sorcerer, ii. 571

Zodiac, its symbolism, ii. 456;
its origin, 16,984 years ago, _ib._

Zohak and Gemshid, their struggle that of the Persians and Assyrians,
i. 576;
and Feridun, the legend explained, ii. 486;
or Azhi-Dahaka, the serpent of the Avesta, ii. 486;
a personification of Assyria, _ib._

Zonarus traces knowledge from Chaldea to Egypt, thence to the Greeks,
i. 543

Zoömagnetism, or animal magnetism, i. 206;
can magnetize minerals, _ib._

Zoroaster, Zarathustra, Zuruastara, Zuryaster, a spiritual teacher,
ii. 141;
a reformer of Chaldean Magic, i. 191;
when he lived, ii. 141;
Baron Bunsen’s opinion, ii. 432

Zoroastrian religion, its affinity with Judaism and Christianity, ii.
486

Zoroastrianism, no schism, ii. 142

Zoroastrians, migrated from India, ii. 143

Zoro-Babel or prince of Babylon, ii. 441

Zuinglius, the first reformer, his cosmopolitan doctrine of the Holy
Ghost, i. 132

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PAGE
Æsop’s Fables, illustrated, 19
Amberley, Religious Beliefs, 6
Anacalypsis, Higgins, 3
Antiquities of Long Island, 15
Archæology, Westropp’s Hand-Book, 25
Archie Armstrong’s Jests, 29
Avesta, Bleeck, 25

Behn’s Dram. Works, 15
Bible of Humanity, 3
Blake, Swinburne’s Essay, 23
Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 21
Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, 3
Boccaccio, Decameron, illustrated, 19
Brome’s Dram. Works, 15
Burns’ Complete Works, 6

Catalogue, Wilson Colln. of Paintings, 19
Caxton’s Dictes and Sayinges, 5
Statutes of Henry VIII., 30
Centlivre’s Dram. Works, 15
Champney, Quiet Corner of England, 25
Chapman’s Dram. Works, 15
Chinese Classics, 23
Cokain’s Dram. Works, 18
Costume, Lacroix, XVIII. Siècle, 17
Planché, 8
Historique, Racinet, 11
Crowne’s Dram. Works, 18
Cruikshank, Illustrations of Time, 24
Phrenological Illus., 24

Davenant’s Dram. Works, 18
Dekker’s Dram. Works, 15
Diary of Am. Revolution, 24
Dibdin’s Bibliomania, 29
Douglas’ Poetical Works, 29
Dramatic Works of Tourneur, 6
Dramatists, Early English, 15
of the Restoration, 18
Duyckinck’s Cyclopædia of Am. Literature, 27

Edwards’ Founders of Brit. Museum, 23
Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, 14
English Rogue, 22
Engravings, Willshire’s Guide, 31
Erasmus’ Apophthegms, 5
Etchings, Chapters on Painting, 12
Contemporary Art, 4
Examples of Modern, 11, 12
after Frans Hals, 32
“L’Art”, 33
from National Gallery, 12
The Portfolio, 34
Unger’s Works, 32
Wilson Catalogue, 19
Examples of Contemporary Art, 4

Fine Arts, Æsop’s Fables, illus., 19
Bible Plates, 5
Bell’s Anatomy of Expression, 20
Blake, Etchings, 4
Blake, Heaven and Hell, 21
Chapters on Painting, 12
Contemporary Art, 4
Costume, Racinet, 11
Cruikshank’s “Time”, 24
“Phrenological Illus., 24
Dürer’s Little Passion, 19
Etchings from National Gallery, 12
French Artists, &c., 12
Works of Hals, 32
Holbein, 23
Jeanne d’Arc, 17
Jésus-Christ, 17
Jones’ Alhambra, 30
Jones’ Gram. of Ornmt., 28
Keramic Art, Japan, 7
Lacroix, 4
Lacroix, XVIII. Siècle, vol. 1, 17
“L’Art.”, 33
Lundy, 9
Mod. Etchings, 11, 12
Planché, Costume, 8
Polychromatic Ornament, 7
The Portfolio, 34
Quiet Corner of Eng., 25
Textile Fabrics, 31
Turner Gallery, 10
Wright’s Womankind, 26
Wilson’s Catalogue, 19
Willshire on Prints, 31
Works of Wm. Unger, 32
Freemasonry, Hyneman’s Register, 27
Mackenzie, Cyclo., 7
Paton, Symbols, 25
French Artists of Present Day, 12
Furman’s Long Island, 15

Gesta Romanorum, 28
Glapthorne’s Dram. Works, 15
Grammar of Ornament, Jones, 28
Racinet, 7
Greville Memoirs, 29

Halliwell’s Hist. of Stratford on Avon, 24
Hamerton’s Examples of Mod. Etchings, 12
Heywood’s Dram. Works, 15
Higgins’ Anacalypsis, 3
Holbein, by Woltman, 23

Inman’s Ancient Faith embodied in Ancient
Names, 2 v., 14
Ancient Faiths & Modern, 13
Anc. Pagan Symbolism, 16
Ireland, Shak. Forgeries, 26
Isis Unveiled, 3

Jeanne d’Arc, Wallon, 17

Keramic Art of Japan, Fr., 7
King’s Gnostics, 25
Knight’s Ancient Art and Mythology, 13
Worship of Priapus, 28

Lacroix, XVIII. Siècle, Costume, &c., 17
XVIII. Siècle., vol. 2. Sciences, 4
Lacy’s Dram. Works, 18
L’Art. Art Magazine, 33
Lee’s Life, &c., of De Foe, 26
Legge’s Chinese Classics, 23
Leland, Fu Sang, 16
Littré Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, 24
Lundy’s Monumental Christianity, 9

Mackay’s Lost Beauties of the English Language, 16
Markland’s Lady de Osorio, 23
Marmion’s Dram. Works, 18
Masonic Register, Hyneman’s, 27
Memoirs of Sanson Family, 25
Mexico, Geiger, 22
Michelet, Bible of Humanity, 3
Moore’s Epicurean, 9
Musical Instruments, &c., 5

Nares’ Glossary Early Eng., 29

Original Lists of Emigrants, &c., 21
Ornamental Textile Fabrics, 31
Owen Jones, Alhambra, 30

“Passio Christi.” See Dürer, 19
Paton’s Symbolism of Masonry, 25
Phallic Worship, Anacalypsis, 3
Isis Unveiled, 3
Knight, 28
Inman, 14, 16
Westropp and Wake, 14
“Portfolio,” an Artistic Periodical, 34
Prostitution. Dufour, Hist., 31

Rambosson, Harmonies du Son, 5
Religions. Amberley, 6
Avesta, 25
Ancient Art & Mythology, 13
Ancient Faiths & Modern, 14
Ancient Pagan Symbols, 16
Ancient Symbol Worship, 14
Chinese Classics, 23
Gnostics, etc., 25
Higgins, Anacalypsis, 3
Isis Unveiled, 3
Inman, Ancient Faiths, 13
Knight’s Priapus, 28
Lundy, Monum. Christ’y, 9
Michelet’s Bible of Humanity, 3
Rosicrucians, 27
Serpent and Siva Worship, 3
Taylor, Eleusinian Mysteries, 14
Wheeler’s India, 13
Yarker’s Mysteries, 27
Rump Songs, &c., 22

Serpent and Siva Worship, 3
Shakespeare, Facsimile of 1st fol., 18
Forgeries, Ireland, 26
School of, 4
Songs, &c. Museum Deliciarum, 20
Ballads, D’Urfey’s Pills, 20
and Ballads, The Rump, 22
Westminster Drolleries, 22
Story of the Stick, 21
Symbolism. Anacalypsis, 3
of Freemasonry, 25
Gnostics, &c., 25
Inman, 16
Inman’s Anc. Faiths, &c., 14
Knight’s Priapus, 28
Lundy, 9
Rosicrucians, 27
Serpent Worship, 3
Westropp, &c., 14
Yarker, 27

Turner Gallery, 10
Tourneur’s Plays 6

Unger, Frans Hals, 32
Works, 32

Veuillot. Jésus-Christ, 17
Violin and its Makers, Hart, 18

Walford’s County Families, 30
Westminster Drolleries, 22
Westropp, Handbook of Archæology, 25
Wheeler’s History of India, 13
Willshire on Prints, 31
Wilson’s Dram. Works, 18
Ornithology, 8
Wright’s Womankind, 26

Yarker, Scientific and Religious Mysteries, 27

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The Apophthegms of Erasmus.

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Cyclopædia of Costume;

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The Epicurean;

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The Turner Gallery,

A SERIES OF SIXTY ENGRAVINGS, from the Works of J. M. W.
TURNER, R.A. With Biographical Sketch and Descriptive Text by
RALPH N. WORNUM, Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery,
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THE TURNER GALLERY is already so well known to lovers of
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Work, little need be said by way of comment or introduction.
The Original Engravings have, for the first time, been
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_From the London Art Journal._

“A series of engravings from Turner’s finest pictures, and of a size and equality commensurate with their importance, has not till now been offered to the public.

“In selecting the subjects, the publisher has chosen judiciously. Many of his grandest productions are in this series of Engravings, and the ablest landscape engravers of the day have been employed on the plates, among which are some that, we feel assured, Turner himself would have been delighted to see. These _proof impressions_ constitute a volume of exceeding beauty, which deserves to find a place in the library of every man of taste. The number of copies printed is too limited for a wide circulation, but, on that account, the rarity of the publication makes it the more valuable.

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The attention of Collectors and Connoisseurs is particularly invited to the above exceedingly choice volume; they should speedily avail themselves of the opportunity of securing a copy at the low price at which it is now offered.

_AN ENTIRELY NEW WORK ON COSTUME BY M. RACINET,
AUTHOR OF “POLYCHROMATIC ORNAMENT,” ETC._

Le Costume Historique.

_Illustrated with 500 Plates_, 300 of which are in Colors,
Gold and Silver, and 200 in Tinted Lithography (Camaïeu).
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Articles, Modes of Transport, etc. With explanatory Notices
and Historical Dissertations (in French). By M. A. RACINET,
author of “Polychromatic Ornament.” To be issued in 20 parts.
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(11½ × 16 inches), in cloth portfolio, $9.00 each.

_NO ORDERS RECEIVED EXCEPT FOR THE COMPLETE WORK._

Each part will contain 25 plates, 15 in colors and 10 in tinted Lithography. Parts 1, 2, and 3 are now ready for delivery. Upon completion of the work, the price will be raised 25 per cent.

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“The name of Firmin Didot & Co., of Paris, is such a guarantee of mechanical execution in a book, that it is sufficient to state that _Le Costume Historique_ is fully on a par with any of the former publications of this distinguished house. In addition to its other features, this work has numerous illustrations, giving restorations of Roman, Greek, and Egyptian interiors. In fact the work is conceived on a large plan, and will be found most useful to the artist. With such a book as a reference, some of the glaring inconsistencies we still see from time to time on the stage, where periods as to costume, some hundreds of years apart, are terribly mixed up, might be prevented, and the unities saved. The publishers have had the excellent idea of reducing the size of the illustrations, so as to bring the price of this picture-cyclopædia of the costume of the world within the means of the most prudent book-buyer.”--_N. Y. Daily Times._

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“This work is unquestionably the best work on its subject ever offered to the public, and it will engage very general attention. In shapeliness and convenience, too, it leaves nothing to be desired, which cannot be said often of cyclopædias of costume. One can enjoy the colors and contents of these ‘parts’ while lounging in a veranda or rocking in a boudoir. It is not necessary to adjourn to a public library and to an immovable chair.”--_Evening Post._

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Examples of Modern Etching.

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Edited, with notes, by PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON, Editor
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Among the contents of this choice volume, may be mentioned “_The Laughing Portrait of Rembrandt_,” by Flameng; _Twickenham Church_, by Seymour Haden; _Aged Spaniard_, by Legros; _The Hare--A Misty Morning_, by Bracquemond; _The Thames at Richmond_, by Lalanne; _The Ferryboat_, by Veyrassat, etc.

∵ A set of proofs of the plates in the above volume alone are worth in the London market £10 10s. 0d., or seventy dollars currency.

Etchings from the National Gallery.

A series of eighteen choice plates by Flameng, Le Rat,
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Moroni, Mantegna, Velasquez, Rembrandt, Cuyp, Maes, Hobbema,
Reynolds, Gainsborough, Turner, and Landseer, with Notes by
RALPH N. WORNUM (Keeper of the National Gallery). The text
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To admirers of Etchings, the present volume offers several of the most notable of recently executed plates, among others the _Portrait of Rembrandt_, by Waltner; _The Parish Clerk_, after Gainsborough, by the same etcher; _The Burial of Wilkie_, after Turner, by Brunet-Debaines; _Portrait of a Youth_, after Masaccio, by Léopold Flameng, etc.

French Artists of the Present Day.

A series of twelve fac-simile engravings, after pictures
by Gérome, Rosa Bonheur, Corot, Pierre Billet, Legros,
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Biographical Notices by René Ménard. Folio, tastefully bound
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Chapters on Painting.

By RENÉ MÉNARD (Editor of “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”).
Translated under the superintendence of Philip Gilbert
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Ancient Art and Mythology.

The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology.
An Inquiry. By RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT, author of “Worship of
Priapus.” A new edition, with Introduction, Notes translated
into English, and a new and complete Index. By ALEXANDER
WILDER, M.D. 1 vol. 8vo, cloth, handsomely printed, $3.00.

“Not only do these explanations afford a key to the religion and mythology of the ancients, but they also enable a more thorough understanding of the canons and principles of art. It is well known that the latter was closely allied to the other; so that the symbolism of which the religious emblems and furniture consisted likewise constituted the essentials of architectural style and decoration, textile embellishments, as well as the arts of sculpture, painting, and engraving. Mr. Knight has treated the subject with rare erudition and ingenuity, and with such success that the labor of those who come after him rather add to the results of his investigations than replace them in important particulars. The labors of Champollion, Bunsen, Layard, Bonomi, the Rawlinsons, and others, comprise his deductions so remarkably as to dissipate whatever of his assertions that appeared fanciful. Not only are the writings of Greek and Roman authors now more easy to comprehend, but additional light has been afforded to a correct understanding of the canon of the Holy Scripture.”--_Extract from Editor’s Preface._

A SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME TO “ANCIENT FAITHS.”

Ancient Faiths and Modern.

A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends, and Divinities in
Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, before the
Christian Era. Showing their Relations to Religious Customs
as they now exist. By THOMAS INMAN, M.D., author of “Ancient
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