Humanities and Arts Books

This collection of notes accumulated insensibly from day to day. The volumes on Shakspeare’s Women, on Sacred and Legendary Art, and various other productions, sprung from seed thus lightly and casually sown, which, I hardly know how, grew up and expanded into a regular, readable form, witha...

How to draw accurately and scientifically

A Latin primer

This Volume, forming one of the Series of Art Handbooks issued under the authority of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, has been prepared by Señor Juan F. Riaño, of Madrid, whose Catalogue of Art Objects of Spanish production in the South Kensington Museum, issued in 1872, has...

This anthology is the result of just one idea, put forward in the Crown Centre one summer evening . . . the writing of letters. The group consists of published and previously unpublished authors.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, born Mary Gray Phelps, (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an American author and an early advocate of clothing reform for women, urging them to burn their corsets.Ward wrote three Spiritualist novels, The Gates Ajar, Between the Gates and Beyond the Gates, and...

Gustav Karpeles (November 11th, 1848, Ivanovice na Hané, Moravia[1] – 1909) was a German Jewish historian of literature and editor; son of Elijah Karpeles. He studied at the University of Breslau, where he attended also the Jewish Theological Seminary. He embraced journalism, and was...

Gertrude Stein…those outside the literary world may have heard of her. Those inside may have even read her. But this early 20th century writer is as elusive, as erudite, as inaccessible as Joyce or Beckett. She didn’t so much write as experiment with words. Perhaps her most enduring legacy is...

The play's prominence has earned it abundant attention from generations of critics. Its "distinctiveness" has been described as "a firestorm of theatrical tricks meant to indulge the erotic fantasies and jaded tastes of Jacobean audiences..," combined with a "philosophical drama...of substantive...

One of Stowe’s romantic novels. Stowe depicts what happens when a man and a woman with “exactly opposing intentions” join each other in marriage and explores the idea that “… there is nothing so good for a woman’s health as to give her- her own way.”