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ture of The Doctor by Luke Fildes, but here the lamp only adds to the poverty and anguish of the scene. It is realistic and had to be there, and it makes a great factor in the lighting. But the chandelier with candles is the most beloved by the artist who inclines to the primitive, as we all do. The electric light must come

e may gibe at the paint and canvas of old masters, he may deride the grace of the Greek in sculpture, but the simple mechanism of the clo

f Christian IV of Denmark, of the late sixteenth century, with the King's monogram. It was doubtless used in the expedition round the North Cape. It is in the collection at Rosenborg Castle at Copenhagen. This lantern shape is

similarly was affixed to a wall, and we know it as a bracket clock, because, whether on a wall or on a bracket, i

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erbert from a reverie and beat rhythmically to his carefully wrought verse. The same hand pointed to midnight that beckoned Lovelace from his revels. We are reminded of Justice Shallow's "we have heard the chimes at midnight,"-an old man's boast of rollicking gaiety. The trite engraved words Tempus fugit drew a thousand sweet sounds from golden-mouthed Herrick, who sang of fading roses and counselled maids "with Daffodils and Daisi

spended beneath the brass case. Such a clock usually went for thirty hours. That is, it was usual to wind it by pulling up the chains

s a driving force, being weight-driven, and are before the introduction

examples of early clockmaking, with fine brass dials, with artistic appearance, simple and unpretentio

th hardly filled the requirements of an age when domestic furniture demanded luxury a

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e day. He remarked that it was time to wind up a clock that stood near his bed. These little circumstances were long remembered, because they proved beyond dispute that, when he declared himself a Roman Catholic, he was in full possession of his faculties. He apologized to those who had stood round him all night

man be in sickness or pain, the time will seem l

ng. It may have been usual to wind it at that particular time every morning, being, as it undoubtedly was, a thirty-hour clock conven

astronomer and mechanician, applied it to the clock. At first it was placed in front of the dial and swung from the top. The illustration we give (p

n, to the later type, when the dial projected beyond the body of the clock. When the bell was placed at the top and ornamented by a brass termin

um, and alarum with striking and going trains run by same weight. It will be observed that these clocks have only one hand-the hour hand. In the example above mentioned (see Frontispiece), the dial has an inner circle showing quarters of an hour. Th

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weights. It is a thirty-hour clock, with striking but no al

on to conceal its movement. The example illustrated (p. 55) shows this

mbodied in brass clocks, and the illustration (p. 57) of an example about 1700 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, sh

m is parallel with the village cabinet-maker's furniture. Generation after generation produced oak chairs and settles in Stuart form, and when Chippendale seized the world of fashion, it was not till long afterwards that village craftsmen made chairs in the Chippendale manner-but in yew, in beech, and in sycamore, nev

e time. His engraving on dials is of the same character as that on his local coffin-plat

ays that such and such a thing is unique in its art-appeal to him. The man of money seeks to prove that it is not unique and buys as many uniques and antiques as his distended banking account will allow. We find this applies to lantern clocks. Birmingham has turned out thousands of these brass clocks in replica of seventeenth-century styles. Sometimes as much as ten pounds is

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" Lovers of the real can impart to the modern replicas purchased for a few pounds the spirit of the old examples. It is the same artistic impulse which accepts the translation in lieu of the original. Through FitzGerald we read Omar. Horatius Flaccus, who appeals to the