Wisdom while you wait : $b Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ... — John Shaqi
Wisdom while you wait : $b Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ...Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
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Wisdom while you wait : $b Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ...
Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
Encyclopaedia Britannica -- Humor; English wit and humor
C. F. Moberly Bell 198 Alfred Napoleon Harmsworth 23
G. E. Buckle 186 Scipio Africanus Harmsworth 21
Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace 185 Hildebrand Hannibal Harmsworth 19
Humphry Ward 193
George Hooper 179 Alexander Tamburlaine Harmsworth 16
Dr. Morrison 183
G. W. Smalley 178 Wellington Marlborough Harmsworth 14
J. A. Fuller Maitland 191 Charlemagne Attila Harmsworth 12
A. B. Walkley 199
Hugh Chisholm 174 Washington Roosevelt Harmsworth 6
Valentine Chirol 170
M. de Blowitz 200 Rhodes Kitchener Harmsworth 2
[_The New Volume also contains Articles on THE EXPANSION OF TELEGRAMS,
NEWS INVESTIGATORS, FIRE BRIGADES, and IMPERIALIST LIBERALISM._]
Superb Plate from the Article =Thames= in the New
Volumes of the INSIDECOMPLETUAR BRITANNIAWARE.
[Illustration: FLAG ON HOUSEBOAT.
SHELL FOUND IN BACKWATER.
SWAN FEEDING CYGNETS.
BULRUSHES NEAR PANGBOURNE.
QUAINT DESIGN ON OLD INN AT SONNING.]
THE MAKING OF MAUSOLEUMS.
_From the Special Article (81 pages) by Professor ALGERNON ASHTON._
=Tomb-building.=--... The architecture of mausoleums, tombs, cenotaphs,
and other mortuary monuments has shown of late years a deterioration
in regard to solidity of structure very painful to me in my cemeterial
constitutionals from Kensal Green to Gravesend. Instead of the
Cyclopean ponderosity of the Pre-Mycenæan epoch, one notices everywhere
a flimsiness of material and meretriciousness of ornament most
distressing to the serious observer. The trail of the jerry-builder is
over all. I rejoice, however, to note signs of a return to a saner and
more solid style of memorial architecture. Foremost in this movement
are the enlightened and enterprising inventors of Bell’s Encyclopædic
Tomb Blocks which in point of density of texture and specific gravity
compare favourably with any other materials, whether of metal, brick,
or stone. Once placed in position they cannot be removed even by the
wildest of hydraulic rams or the most ferocious of cranes. I can
conceive no more ideal resting-place for a wearied littérateur than a
mausoleum constructed of these stupendous and impressive blocks. Where,
indeed, could a man sleep more profoundly or tranquilly than when
sepulchred in the very heart of the condensed extract of omniscience?...
[_The new Volumes also contain Articles on the WOKING GOLF CLUB,
WAGNER’S TRAUERMARSCH, SUTTEE, the ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC, and
CREMATION_.]
DINING ROOM DECORATIONS.
_From the Special Article (50 pages) by WALTER CRANE._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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