... first day's proceedings , as given in our Friday's issue , it is proper to mention , that on Thursday evening , the spacious parlors of E. G. Loomis , Esq . , on South Main street , were , on invitation , filled by both visiting and ...

This book features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, recognized as the most extensive and finest in the world.

... Friday night the last of October . " - Judge Sewall's Diary , anno 1690. William Longfellow's widow married Henry Short , May 11 , 1692 . 3 William Longfellow bad two sons who bore the name of Ste- phen . The first of the name , born in ...

Ginger Wadsworth and Patricia J. Wynne chronicle the real-life drama of one spider as she eats, grows, spins a dragline of silk, and soars up, up, and away to find a home of her own.

Rhyming text suggests other options when one tries to count sheep but discovers that they are all asleep.

Jacqueline Wadsworth skilfully uses these letters to tell the human story of the First World War Ð what mattered to Britain's servicemen and their feelings about the war; how the conflict changed people; and how life continued on the Home ...

The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man.

Featuring nearly one hundred color images of artworks, exhibition ephemera, and photographs, this book is at once a sourcebook history of AFRICOBRA and the story of visionary artists who rejected the white art establishment in order to ...

Unlike most other poetry anthologies, arranged only chronologically or limited to the exploration of one type of poem, Jay Parini's WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY collects 24 smaller, more accessible anthologies in one volume.

Going beyond well-trodden analyses, this book provides new perspectives on the illustrator and his work."--Heather Campbell Coyle, Delaware Art Museum