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THE ROMANCE OF THE HAREM.

By MRS. A. H. LEONOWENS, AUTHOR OF “THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT.”

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“When we began to feel that the poetry of the East was exhausted, Mrs. Leonowens opened for us the door into a land of romance as novel, as fascinating, and as splendid as any the Orient has ever shown us. In her ‘English Governess at the Siamese Court,’ we had a somewhat confused glimpse of it; but in ‘The Romance of the Harem’ we have our curiosity fully satisfied.”—_Hartford Courant._

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KEEL AND SADDLE: A RETROSPECT OF FORTY YEARS OF MILITARY AND NAVAL SERVICE.

By JOSEPH W. REVERE.

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THE KABALLAH OF THE EGYPTIANS, AND

Canon of Proportions of the Greeks.

By GEO. HENRY FELT.

All traditions respecting the “Kaballah” of the Egyptians concur in stating that it was a Perfect System of Proportion, and if rediscovered would furnish us with a Complete Key to all the Works of Art in antiquity, and of Nature itself; that it would elucidate the Origin of Language, written or spoken, hieroglyphic or figurative, thus showing the hidden and true meaning of the Old and New Testaments.

The Grecian Canon was this system of proportion brought from Egypt by Grecian sculptors and architects, about B. C. 350, by which they fashioned their unequalled statues of the human figure, and their architectural masterpieces.

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