The sciopticon manual, explaining lantern projection in general, and the sciopticon apparatus in paricular (1877)

Record Details:

Title:
The sciopticon manual, explaining lantern projection in general, and the sciopticon apparatus in paricular
Date:
1877
Publisher:
Philadelphia, J. A. Moore
Volume:
The sciopticon manual, explaining lantern projection in general, and the sciopticon apparatus in paricular
Leaf #:
000132
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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SCIOPTICON MANUAL. 123 Thy sober autumn fading into age, And pale concluding winter comes at last And shuts the scene." MOVABLE SLIDES. These of course tell their own story. Now and then, an appropriate recitation can be found for them. The swan floating upon the moving waters, for in- stance, may be assumed as illustrating the legend that her first and only song is sung as she floats down the river en her dying day. " 'Tis the swan, my love, She is floating down from her native grove, No loved one now—no nestling nigh— She is floating down by herself to die. Death darkens her eye and unplumes her wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last she sings, Live so, my love, that when Death shall come, Swan-like and sweet, it may waft thee home." Spectators, in the limited time given them, can hardly be expected to take in all the details of a complex view, without more or less of this particularizing, which can be resorted to as occasion requires, therefore, in connection with a wide range of subjects. SCIENTIFIC SLIDES, Ac. The illustrations enumerated in the Scientific Depart- ment, of the appended catalogue, are suited to the text- books in common use. Works on natural history afford descriptions of beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects. Botany describes plants and flowers. The explanations in Wells's Geology, Cutter's Physi- ology, &c., are just as well suited to the corresponding