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...cricket pad on a large scale, extending from the chest to the knees. The sword arm, from the wrist to the shoulder, was then padded and bandaged to three times its natural size, and the hand guarded by a thick leathern gauntlet. Lastly, a pair of spectacles, rimmed with metal, protected the eyes. The schlager, or duelling sword, is then placed in his hand - a nasty looking weapon about a yard and a quarter in length, quite blunt but for about ten inches at the end, where it is double-edged and as sharp as a razor. Thus accoutred...
...nobler material marble, to supersede the wooden, chryselephantine, and bronze images of earlier ages. Marble, with its new qualities, made a distinct impression on the development of the artistic composition of sculpture. Improvements in the art of modelling with clay, the introduction from Samos of bronze castings, whereby the metal got the direct impress of the modeller's hand, the inevitable influence of painting and architecture on sculptural work are to be counted as primary causes of the new era of development...
...Archaeology and Art: Babylonia and Assyria. - Historical sketch from Sargon I. to Nabonidus. The great art-centres and their historical relation; Erech, Ur, Sippar, Nippur, Babilu, Borsippa, Kutha, Larsa, Zirpurla, etc. Their great temples, sculpture and decoration. Characteristics of this art: was it in part Shemitic? Metal-work, especially bronze: enamelling: cylinders. Correspondence of types of Egyptian sculpture of early dynastics with some Babylonian sculpture, especially that of the recent discoveries at Tel-Loh. Distinctive marks of Babylonian and Assyrian art. Secular character of the latter. History of Assyrian art. The great cities of Assur (Kileh-Shergat), Ninevah and Calah...
...during the first ten strokes, either boat is disabled by any bona fide accident. Owing to the unequal length of the boats, the manner of starting the crews, was the cause of much controversy several years ago. Article XIX settles the question definitely. A flag supported by a metal rod is fixed in the stern of the shorter boat, and another on the longer boat, at a distance forward from the center of that boat, equal to one half the length of the shorter boat. The two crews are started even and timed at the finish by these flags...
...correct principles of finance. The arrangement of statistics regarding the production and coinage of gold and silver is especially valuable, presenting in graphic form the yield of the mines in each of the periods in the world's history marked by any unusual increase of one or the other metal, and also of the whole period from the discovery of America to the present time . . . Incidentally, Professor Laughlin demolishes the most distinctive portion of the work of Mr. Dana Horton - that relating to the supposed disturbance of the equilibrium of the precious metals by the Bank of England's resumption...