ILLUSTRATIONS
[STUDY FROM NATURE. BY JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET.]
[PORTRAIT OF JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET, DRAWN BY HIMSELF.]
[THE SHEEP-SHEARERS. FROM A PAINTING BY JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET.]
[PEASANT REPOSING. FROM A PAINTING BY JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET, EXHIBITED IN THE SALON OF 1863.]
[THE MILK-CARRIER. FROM A PAINTING BY JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET.]
[THE ANGELES, MILLET'S MOST FAMOUS PICTURE.]
[NESTLINGS. FROM A PAINTING BY JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET, IN THE MUSEUM AT LILLE.]
[FIRST STEPS. FROM A PASTEL BY JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET.]
[THE SOWER. FROM A PAINTING BY JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET.]
[CHURNING. FROM A PASTEL BY JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET, IN THE LUXEMBOURG]
[A YOUNG SHEPHERDESS. FROM A PAINTING BY JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET.]
["AGNES SAID, WITH QUICKENED BREATHING, 'WE COULDN'T STAY HERE LONG.'"]
["'AGNES, DO YOU KNOW?' HE ASKED. AND SHE ANSWERED, 'YES.'"]
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN 1860.--HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.]
[SCHOOLHOUSE AT BRUCEVILLE, INDIANA, WHERE LINCOLN SPOKE FOR CLAY IN 1844.]
[COURTHOUSE AT PETERSBURG, MENARD COUNTY.]
[THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON IN 1846.]
[LEVI LINCOLN, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS.]
[THE MAUVAIS PAS, MONT BLANC.]
[THE GLACIER DES BOSSONS, MONT BLANC.]
[REFUGE STATION AT THE GRANDS MULETS, MONT BLANC.]
[ADÉLE BALMAT, HOSTESS AT THE GRANDS MULETS STATION.]
[PASSAGE OF A CREVASSE, MONT BLANC.]
[A BIRTHPLACE OF AVALANCHES, MONT BLANC.]
[M. JANSSEN'S OBSERVATORY ON TOP OF MONT BLANC.]
[VIEW FROM THE SUMMIT OF MONT BLANC, SHOWING THE MATTERHORN IN THE DISTANCE.]
[FIGURE I.--APPARATUS USED BY PROFESSOR W.F. MAGIE IN TAKING A SKIAGRAPH OF A HAND.]
[FIGURE 2.--SKIAGRAPH OF A FOOT, SHOWING AN EXTRA BONE IN THE GREAT TOE.]
[FIGURE 3.--SKETCH OF A BABY'S FOOT AS SEEN THROUGH A SKIASCOPE.]
[FIGURE 4.--SKETCH OF A BABY'S KNEE AS SEEN THROUGH A SKIASCOPE.]
[FIGURE 5.--SKIAGRAPH OF A BULLOCK'S EYE.]
[FIGURE 6.--SKIAGRAPH OF A DEAD HAND AND WRIST, SHOWING TWO BUCK-SHOT AND A NEEDLE.]
[FIGURE 7.--SKIAGRAPH OF A BABY'S SKULL, SHOWING TWO BUCK-SHOT PLACED UNDER THE SKULL.]
[FIGURE 9.--SKIAGRAPH OF A HUMAN FOOT, SHOWING THE DEFORMITY IN THE LAST TWO TOES.]
[FIGURE 11.--SKIAGRAPH OF A HUMAN WRIST WHICH HAD BEEN DISLOCATED.]
Reproduced by permission of Braun, Clement & Co.
Reproduced by permission of Braun, Clement & Co. A facsimile of one of the little drawings which Millet was accustomed to make for acquaintances and collectors of autographs, and which he laughingly called his "armes parlantes."
Reproduced by permission of Braun, Clement & Co. Of this portrait, drawn in 1847, Sensier, in his "Life" of Millet, says: "It is in crayon, and life-sized. The head is melancholy, like that of Albert Dürer; the profound regard is filled with intelligence and goodness."