Produced by Chris Curnow, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and ligatures have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. Italics are represented thus _italic_ and superscripts thus y^{en}. The position of hand drawn hieroglyphs has been indicated thus [hieroglyph]. All other examples of text within braces is original. Huntilite, in the index, possibly refers to Heliolite in the text, but it is not clear which is intended. The 510 footnotes are located at the end of the book. The Curious Lore of Precious Stones LIPPINCOTT’S PRACTICAL BOOKS FOR THE ENRICHMENT OF HOME LIFE THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF DECORATIVE WALL-TREATMENTS. BY NANCY MCCLELLAND. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF LEARNING DECORATION AND FURNITURE. BY EDWARD STRATTON HOLLOWAY. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF CHINAWARE. BY HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN and ROGER WEARNE RAMSDELL. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF TAPESTRIES. BY GEORGE LELAND HUNTER. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF OUTDOOR FLOWERS. BY RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor of _House and Garden_. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF FURNISHING THE SMALL HOUSE AND APARTMENT. BY EDWARD STRATTON HOLLOWAY. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF INTERIOR DECORATION. BY HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN, ABBOT MCCLURE and EDWARD STRATTON HOLLOWAY. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE. BY HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN and ABBOT MCCLURE. Revised and Enlarged. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF ORIENTAL RUGS. BY G. GRIFFIN LEWIS. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF AMERICAN ANTIQUES. BY HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN and ABBOT MCCLURE. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE. BY C. MATLACK PRICE. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF ITALIAN, SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE FURNITURE. BY HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN and ROGER WEARNE RAMSDELL. [Illustration: Asteria—Star Sapphire Ceylon Asteria—Star Sapphire Ceylon Asteria—Star Sapphire Ceylon Asteria—Star Sapphire Ceylon Ruby—Asteria—Ceylon Asteria—Star Sapphire Ceylon Sunstone Perth, Canada Moonstone—with white light—Ceylon Moonstone—bluish chatoyancy—Ceylon Iris—Brazil, South America Alexandrite—Green Ceylon Cat’s Eye—Ceylon Alexandrite—Red by artificial light—Ceylon Precious Opal—Hungary Fire Opal Queretera, Mexico Black Opal—Lightning Ridge, New South Wales PHENOMENAL GEMS (GEMS EXHIBITING PHENOMENA) From the J. P. Morgan Collection, American Museum of Natural History, New York] The Curious Lore of Precious Stones BEING A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR SENTIMENTS AND FOLK LORE, SUPERSTITIONS, SYMBOLISM, MYSTICISM, USE IN MEDICINE, PROTECTION, PREVENTION, RELIGION, AND DIVINATION. CRYSTAL GAZING, BIRTH-STONES, LUCKY STONES AND TALISMANS, ASTRAL, ZODIACAL, AND PLANETARY