The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world (1908) (14578891237)

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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world

Year: 1908 (1900s)

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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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of 1853, andin 1861 attracted attention by his Edge of aWood beside the .\llier.> His landscapes, donewith equal success in oils or water-colors, evincea skilfulness of drawing and a coloristic truth-fulness marred only occasionally by a harshnessin_ matters of technique. His works number:View of Capri, Le Saut du Loup, Banks ofthe Rhone (Metropolitan Museum, N. V.), andGarden of the ViWz Medici. Harpsichord, a stringed instrument for-merly in use, in appearance and constructionsimilar to a grand pianoforte. In the front thekeys wero - ■ ., the long ones being thenaturals, : rt ones the sharps and flats. This inJlr led by the Italians claiiccfii- halo. by the French chzccin. was an improve-ment upon the clavichord, which was borrowedfrom the harp. Both are now superseded by thepianoforte. See Pianoforte. Harpswcll, Maine, a township includingthe prist village of Harps well Centre, and com-prising a peninsula and some islands in CascoBay, 14 miles east of Portland. It has agricul-

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> Pi< HARPY-EAGLE — HARRINGTON Chicago; William Trelease of St. Louis; JohnMuir and W. E, Ritter of California, and sev-eral professors from Eastern institutions oflearning. Messrs. John Burroughs, Swain Gif-ford and F. S. Deilenbaugh represented the lit-erarv r.n ! artistic contingenL These gentlemennv :se of their opportunities in investi- geography, geologj-, glacial phe-i fauna and flora of the region tural interests and grist-mills, but is chieflynoted as a summer resort. Pop. (1900) 1,750. Han)7-ftagle. See Eagle. Harraden, Beatrice, English novelist: b.Hampst-:^d, London. 24 Jan. 1864. She tookher degree at London University at 21, and sub-sequemly traveled extensively in the UnitedStates and on the Continent. Her first novel,< Ships that Pass in the Xight (1S93), w-as in-stantly successful and was widely circulated. Ithas been followed by In Varying Moods*(1894) ; Hilda Strafford,* a Califomian story(189;.); The Fowler (1899). Harrier, a small mottled hotrnd used in

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