Identifier: parisinlondon19000lond (find matches)
Title: Paris in London : 1902, Earl's Court : official guide and catalogue : director general Imre Kiralfy
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Art, French Costume, France
Publisher: London : Gale & Polden
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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tretches an endless series of luminousgarlands, hanging in graceful intertwining festoons from point topoint, with here and there a massive chandelier, shining with theeffulgent light which falls from innumerable globes. Gazingupwards into the apparently immeasurable height of the ceiling, you aredazzled by the twinkling of a constellation far more brilliant thanthat with which nature has adorned the heavens. Then, while youwatch in silent wonder, the colours disaj^pear, and the fairy-palace isflooded with a rushing stream of light, flashing from immensity toimmensity, from floor to roof, in a flood of lustrous beauty, besidewhich the wildest imaginings fade to nought. Finally, bevies ofbeautiful girls arise on every hand. And how unwilling are we,emerging reluctantly into the real world again, to believe that it is all,or nearly all, illusory. A rnere hexagonal room, with a sumptuouslydecorated ceiling, mirrored walls, and an electric installation ? Neverit was the Palace of Delight.
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CO zo CO D -I COUJQ 00 < _J<a. UI XH 56 The Moving Stereorama. iiiiioramas and dioramas were plentiful for several decades,and to the majority of people they offered no special attraction.For it was difficult, under the old conditions, to lose consciousness,even for a moment, of the fact that one was witnessing a merecounterfeit presentment. It has been left to two prominent Frenchartistes, MM. Francovich and Uadan, to design and execute awork which, with the assistance of ingenious mechanism, effectuallycarries out its claim to provide all the delights of a trip on thesunny Mediterranean. Comfortably INSTALLED IN A LUXURIOUS FAUTEUIL, in the semi-obscurity which is so material an aid to the imagina-tion, we set out upon our voyage from the port of Bona to Oran. Itis a brilliant morning, when, glancing from a cabin window, we findourselves leaving on our quarter the hills of Bona, lighted to abeauteous brilliancy by the warm rays of the risjpg sun. Rapidlyour good ship cleaves h

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