137 research outputs found
Little Bo-Peep
No full textHere is another Donohue surprise-a book, like Jack and Jill (1895?) that contains only the title-story and fables. This book has the same cover border, the same back cover, and the same Mother Goose endpapers as that book. Its selection of fables surprises me because it seems to complement carefully the selection of fables there. Though they seem to draw on the same sources (see my comments there), there are no repeaters here. After Little Bo-Peep there are four fables, three of which (The Larks and the Farmer, FS, and BW) identify their texts as by Clara Doty Bates. The fourth, TH, has illustrations by Childe Hassam. The first fable is curious for presenting first a full-page illustration by one hand, titled The Larks and the Farmers. Then come five pages with the title The Larks and the Farmer and illustrations by a different hand. Other than Bates and Hassam, I cannot identify the author and artists. There is some material missing at the end, including the finish of BW and one of the endpapers. This book has no spine left. All its pages are separated. Still, I was lucky to get it at this price!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Clara Doty Bates et a
Fairy Land Tales Told Long Ago
No full textThis large-format book with cheap paper presents a potpourri of children's texts and illustration from various genres, with four full-color inserted pages of dressed up children not related to the texts. The black-and-white illustrations suffer throughout from being printed on poor paper. Late in the book we arrive at ten fables, with Hop o' My Thumb and Jack and Jill interspersed. They are generally identical to ten of the twelve fables found in Selections from Aesop's Fables (1884) published by Lothrop. Seven of the ten keep the prose texts that all had in Lothrop, but they do not simply repeat Lothrop's plates for those. The Larks and the Farmer includes a full-page illustration independent of--even foreign to?--the copious other illustrations for this fable here. It changes, for example, the number of young larks. The problem of congruence with story occurs in two inserted pages for TMCM. These three pages were not in the Lothrop edition. Otherwise the illustrations follow the texts well. One can identify the illustrators here most easily by looking at the Lothrop edition's T of C page. Bates amplifies and develops fables so that they occupy five or six pages each. Thus young ants sing, go to school, and use wheelbarrows. The best of the texts may be FS. The most famous illustrator here is Childe Hassam for TMCM. In this version, the country mouse wants to join the town dance in progress!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Mrs. Clara Doty Bates et a
Jack and Jill
No full textThis book represents a great find on a lightning shopping visit over the lunch break of a Jesuit meeting. The book is in terrible condition, with virtually no spine left at all and all the pages loose. This curious book can best be understood as a combination of material found in my 1885? Lupton Fairy Land Tales Told Long Ago and my 1884 Lothrop Selections from Aesop's Fables. Part of the book's strangeness is that Jack and Jill (found in Lupton) is the only non-fable in the whole book! I am very lucky to have found the book! After that story comes first a full page illustration of a fable not presented here ( In the Cat's Court of Appeals ) signed by M. Stephens (?). Then come five presentations of Aesopic fables in verse by Clara Doty Bates, all found in Lothrop. The first and last are illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett, while Childe Hassam did TMCM. TMCM adds one page (the second) out of the two pages of panels added to TMCM in Lupton, with the numbers of the panels (7-12) now removed. I will leave it to the reader to judge how much sense these six pictures make as they appear suddenly on their own--probably as much sense as a picture of a cat judge ready to eat both litigants (a bunny and a weasel) next to a fable about how a monkey cheats two cat litigants. Pick up a rock and you will find something underneath it!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Clara Doty Bate
Complicated submissions : sati and subversion in three women’s novels of the Raj AND Appledore in bloom: Thaxter, Hassam, and a flowering of art
No full textWhat can literary studies tell us about the Hindu custom of sati? The nineteenth century fiction of Flora Annie Steel, Maud Diver, and Krupabai Sattianadhan, written contemporaneously with the gendered norms it portrays, provides a representation of the patriarchal dynamic between Hindu men and women that might be implicated in the extreme act of widow self-immolation. This study examines a novel by each woman author, Steel’s On the Face of the Waters, Diver’s Lilimani, and Satthianadhan’s Kamala to uncover extant cultural expectations and behaviors that contributed to the acceptance of the practice of sati and to its mediated resistance and subversion. AND The North Atlantic island of Appledore in the Isles of Shoals inspired American artists Celia Thaxter and Childe Hassam to prolific creation before and after the turn of the twentieth century. This paper argues that the island acted as their muse and is an archive of their experience. Celia Laighton Thaxter and Childe Hassam, author/gardener and Impressionist painter, respectively, spent many summers on the small island over the course of decades, Thaxter hosting an arts salon and Hassam joining her and a cadre of America’s creative elite in exclusive community. Thaxter produced poetry, prose, journalism, and children’s stories as she annually cultivated an ornamental flower garden; Hassam painted Thaxter’s garden and the contours of the island’s coastline in oil, watercolor, and pastel. The pair collaborated on Thaxter’s literary production, and Hassam went on to document the topography and geology of the island for years after Thaxter’s death, creating a collection of Impressionist works that showcase Appledore’s rocky natural beauty. Together, in words and images, they created a record of Appledore that made it an archival place. A replica of Thaxter’s original garden is maintained today and can be visited courtesy The University of New Hampshire’s Shoals Marine Laboratory and its collaboration with Cornell University
Lihya / Portraits
No full textMonth long residency funded by The British Council, The Delfina Foundation and All Art Now. Lecture at Maktab Anbar during "Living Spaces" video art festival in Damascus, subsequent workshops and exhibition "For Your Eye" ( more > ) featuring work by Michael Windle and...Nisrine Boukhari, Erfan Khalifa, Muhammad Ali, Fadi Al Hamwi, Iman Hasbani, Manar Wakim, Rouba Khwais, Razan Mohsen, Bassel Tabakh, Salam Al Hassam, Beate Hecher & Markus Kei
Investigate the Damage of Kinetic Energy High-Velocity Bird Impact on Three Different Model Spar by Using the Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) Approach
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No full textHere is a curious find with ties to four books already in the collection. It is closest to the copy from Old Children's Books in New Orleans in June, '87. The only difference here lies in the red cloth cover with the title placed before a half sunburst, a panel highlighting TH, images for LM, and acknowledgement of author and artists. Internally, the books are identical. The next closest comes from Bookhouse, Arlington Oct., '91, which is different on both sides of the title-page. Two further cousins have identical content after the first few pages but have a different title, "Select Fables" on their front covers. As I wrote of the Old Children's Books version, one finds here prose versions followed by Bates' long poetic versions surrounded with art. The best illustrations are of FS and FK. This version has the same error in the title of the prose version: "The Lark and the Farmer" should have a plural for the bird. The spine is become detached from the block of this book.Mrs. Clara Doty Bate
Pyrolysis of hazardous plastic waste
No full textIn this study, the pyrolysis of expanded polystyrene, polypropylene/polyethylene, and high impact polystyrene plastic waste from WEEE (electronic & electrical equipment) and C&D (construction and demolition) are studied at various temperature (500-600 oC) using dolomite to determine the maximum liquid phase with minimum halogen content. The products are assessed by thermo gravimetric analysis, pyrolytic-gas chromatography mass spectrometry, X-Ray fluorescence analysis and gas chromatography flame ionization. Heating values are calculated by automated bomb calorimetry and differential scanning calorimetry. The outcome of the dehalogenation experiments exhibits lower halogenated contents with maximum liquid product at lower temperature and in the presence of dolomite additiv
Velocity model building from 2D land data at FORGE geothermal field using Migration Velocity Analysis (MVA)
No full textThis thesis explores the critical process of velocity model building from 2D land data in the context of geothermal exploration at the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) field by using the Migration Velocity Analysis (MVA) technique. The FORGE geothermal field, known for its complex and well-known geological structure, presents a unique opportunity for investigating geothermal potential. Throughout this study, many challenges associated with the processing of land data were encountered which are characterized by various types of noise and by inherent complexity compared to marine environments, land data acquisition is often subject to near-surface issues, heterogeneous geological conditions, and the presence of strong ground roll. Despite these complexities, specialized data preprocessing and noise removal techniques were applied, successfully reducing the impact of noise, and improving the seismic data quality for further processing. Finally, migration velocity analysis (MVA) combined with Interactive Horizon Residual Moveout (RMO) analysis was implemented to iteratively update an initial velocity model estimated by the semblance. This study showed that interactive Horizon Residual Moveout (RMO) combined with Migration Velocity Analysis (MVA) was a very effective method for updating the velocity model even in a geothermal context. As a result, the updated velocity model significantly improved the subsurface imaging and would be used as a starting model for a subsequent step of full waveform inversion
Impact of COVID-19, Political, and Financial Events on the Performance of Commercial Banking Sector
No full textThis paper employs a structural empirical model to gauge the possible effects of COVID-19, political and financial events on the returns and volatility of commercial banks. It observes that insured and run-prone uninsured depositors choose between differentiated commercial banks, which appears to be significantly impacted from the present pandemic, especially for the case of Pakistan’s commercial banking sector. The estimated volatility series for commercial banks is measured through the GARCH model, which explains the current financial and political distress for the case of shocks from COVID-19. We calibrate by Impulse Indicator Saturation (IIS) to detect the structural breaks formed by these events in the returns and volatility series of commercial banks. It is observed that the calibrated model possesses almost all financial events that have had a prominent impact on the returns and volatility series whereas two out of eighteen political events are unimpacted
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