Illustrated Catalogue Of Magic Lanterns (after November 1889, probably 1890)

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168 McINTOSH BATTERY AND OPTICAL CO., CHICAGO, ILL., U. S. A. BEAUTIFUL COMPANION PIECES. Night.— A beautiful female figure, clad in flowing white robes, clinging to the moon. Stars dotting the sky. ® Morning.— Another artistic gem is a beautifully draped female figure floating in the rays of the rising sun. 6 Both of these are exqu’site and refined pieces, andean be appropriately used before any audience. Three inches, square, $2.00. A CHRISTMAS HYMN [With Poem.] 1 “ Had Rome been growing up to might, and now was queen of land and sea.” 2 4 The Senator of haughty Rome impatient urged his chariot’s flight.’ 3 “ Within that province far away went plodding home a weary boor.” 4 “ How calm a moment may precede one that shall thrill the world forever.” 5 “ A thousand bells ring out, and thiow their joyful peals abroad.” 6 “ For in that stable lay, new born, the peaceful Prince of earth and heaven.” 1 2 HOME, SWEET HOME. [With Poem.] Be it ever so humble, There’s no place like home.” An exile from home, Splendor dazzles in vain.” 3 44 How sweet ’tis to sit ’Neath a fond father’s smile.” 4 “ To thee I’ll return Overburdened with care.” The ballad of 44 Home, Sweet Home,” was written by our countryman, John Howard Paine, in the early part of this century, and these illustrations are designed to give some idea of the style of dress, etc., of the period. SELECTED PAINTED COMIC SLIP SLIDES. 65 cents each. A large assortment of these grotesque pictures always on hand and always changing. The newest and latest selections will be made for our patrons. BEAUTIFULLY COLORED PHOTOGRAPHS OF FINE ENGRAVINGS FOR DISSOLVING AND SINGLE LANTERNS. 1 Dore’s Illustrations of the Bible, 230 slides in each set. 2 Dore’s Illustrations of Milton’s Paradise Lost, 50 slides in each set. 3 Dore’s Illustrations of Dante’s Inferno, 76 slides in each set. 4 Dore’s ‘‘Ancient Mariner,” 39 slides in each set. ABIDE WITH ME. We have arranged and perfected a beautiful set of slides to illustrate the favorite hymn. “Abide with Me,” by Henry Francis Lyte. Those who have seen the effect produced upon an audience by the judicious use of music in connection with certain slides, at the closing of an entertainment, will readily appreciate what the set now offered must be. Even the old and well-known set, “Rock of Ages,” although consisting of but four slides, when rightly handled by an expert operator with an accompaniment on the organ, or the hymn given by a quartette of voices, will produce a better -effect than any number of pieces of this nature without the music, as there is so little a lecturer can say that will equal the charm lent to it by appropriate music. This set, as arranged, consists of twenty-five beautiful colored slides, and we have no hesitation in saying that it is the finest combination of pictures of this class ever offered to the public. Those who have seen the pictures projected while the song was being sung, say they had always admired the words, but never knew before what a deep meaning there was in every line. No hymn or poem was ever written that is so well adapted to illustra- tion, and no illustrations were ever made that so appropriately set forth the spirit of the words. It has been suggested that a smaller number of illustrations would insure a larger sal® of the set, as many would be deterred from purchasing twenty-five slides where they might be induced to purchase ten or twelve. We have taken all this into account, but still prefer to offer the set in its complete form, thinking that those who do purchase will agree withus that its beauty lies in the appropriateness and the fullness of its illustration. The set or. tweniy-five views is sold at $37.50. We give below the hymn entire, with a brief description of the views and effects: 1-2 Abide with me! fast falls the even- tide ; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide! These two lines are illustrated by two views, the first representing a lighthouse on the end of a pier, with nothing visible be- yond but the sea, and the whole showing that night approaches. The second view the same, but at night, with a beautiful ej" feet upon the water, the light shining fro 11 * the lighthouse, and appropriately illustrates the line, “The darkness deepens.”