Illustrations
Reading edition
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Frontispiece466
Miss Edith M. Thomas.467
A corner of the drawing-room.472
The dining-room.476
View from a window in the tower.477
A. Conan Doyle.488
R. E. Peary, C. E., U. S. N.489
Camille Flammarion.491
F. Hopkinson Smith.492
Grover Cleveland.494
Craig-y-Nos.502
Craig-y-Nos and terraces from the river.503
Madame Patti’s father.504
Madame Patti at eighteen.504
Madame Patti in 1869 and in 1877.505
The dining-room.506
The conservatory.507
Madame’s boudoir.508
The sitting-room.509
The French billiard-room.510
The English billiard-room.511
Signor Nicolini.512
A bit in the park. The suspension bridge.513
The proscenium of Craig-y-Nos theater.514
The laboratory of Davy and Faraday at the Royal Institution.525
Professor Dewar in the laboratory of the Royal Institution.527
The lecture-room of the Royal Institution.528
Professor Dewar’s lecture-table.529
Early and latest forms of vessels for holding liquefied oxygen.530
The “compressors.”531
Doctor Luys.547
Pleasing effect of the north pole of a magnet.548
Repulsive effect of the south pole of a magnet.549
Esther, Doctor Luys’ subject.550
Esther in the lethargic state.551
Attraction of the hand in the lethargic state.551
The action of water.552
Pleasure caused by pepper presented to the left side.552
Anxiety caused by pepper presented to the right side.553
Pleasure caused by fennel presented to the right eye.553
Anxiety caused by heliotrope.554
The effect of thyme.554
Fright produced by sulphate of sparteine.554
Terror caused by frankincense.554
Abe was following the plough.555
And Ephe he was tickled.556
And she pitched in.556
First spirt of blood.557
“Do you know me?”558