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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Gloria Mundi(PARIS, 1900)MAGICIAN hands through long, laborious nights Have made these princely palaces to loom Whiter than are the city's legion lights,On threads unseen stretched out across the gloom. Reared in an hour, for one brief hour to reign,The proud pavilions watchful hold in fee A world's achievements, where the stately Seine Slides slowly past her bridges to the sea. Mute and memorial, as on either bankShe sees the marvel worked before her eyes, Beholds as in a vision, rank on rank,Pagoda, dome, and campanile rise, Like to a mother scowling on a childSceptred and crowned to make a queen of May, The Seine, that sorrowed not for France defiled,Past France triumphant frowning goes her way.Yet, dragged reluctant from these ransomed shores,Upon her tide, that sullenly and slow Creeps channelward, the unapparent scoresOf history's spectres disregarded go; And as the Empress City gains the seat Of that imperial throne to which at last By devious ways she comes, beneath her feet The Seine in silence blots away the past.Blots out the warning of cathedral bells,The night of snowy scarfs, of swords, of staves, The muffled bass of tumbril wheels that tellsOf mortal men that dig immortal graves; Blots out the faces, calmly unafraid,Of prince and peasant, courtesan and queen, When men made martyrs and were martyrs made,When France meant Hell and God meant Guillotine!Like pilgrims whom a holy city calls, The peoples bring their miracles to her; The world of peace lays down within her walls Its gifts of gold, and frankincense, and myrrh: The West, wide-eyed, alert, intrepid, young, With rush of shuttles and the song of steam; The East, that, lotus-eating, gropes among The half-remembered fragme... ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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A collection of well-known stories, including "The Story of the Fisherman and the Genie," "The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and "The Story of Sinbad the Sailor." ... Read more

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Maxfield Parrish's unmistakable paintings and illustrations captured the nation's imagination with their technical excellence and romantic quality and remain unrivaled to this day. Here, forty of Parrish's finest works are paired with such poetic masterpieces as William Shakespeare's "Oh Mistress Mine", Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty", and "The Splendor Falls" by Alfred Lord Tennyson. A brief biography of Parrish and a preface describing the relationships between the paintings and poems round out this pleasurable offering. By Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler.

96 pages, 40 full-color reproductions, size: 5 7/8 x 8 7/8". Casebound book, with dust jacket. ... Read more

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Another side of Parrish
People know Maxfield Parrish best for his colored work - beautiful figures in romantic surroundings. As a commercial artist, however, he had to fulfill a lot of commissions that couldn't afford color printing.

This book collects his work in black and white. Many of the pieces show the peaceful scenes familiar from his color work. Others, like his book illustrations for Kenneth Grahame, show whimsical, cartoony exaggerations. He seems to have taken special delight in gentle lampoons of people who took themselves just a bit too seriously. We also see foreshadowings of his later color landscapes in some drawings for "The Great Southwest."

There's a kind of sameness about many of the drawings. Part of that is the famous Parrish style. Part, however, comes from limits of the lithographic process used in creating images for reproduction. The litho stone constrains the kinds of marks possible. That sameness never becomes monotony, though.

This is a lovely book, and an effective complement to other books showing his color work. It starts with a brief commentary. After that, there is nothing but the pictures themselves. I like that - I like the feeling of being alone with the artist, or at least with the art.

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