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1Book of Art for Young People

By Agnes Ethel Conway

This is a charming book on Art History for children (and everyone else). Each chapter focuses on a great painting, reproduced in color in the original text. The authors explain the story behind the paintings, as well as the life, times, and techniques of the artists.<br /><br />You may find downloadable versions of all sixteen paintings at <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/Book_of_Art_Illustrations_lv">http://www.archive.org/details/Book_of_Art_Illustrations_lv</a>, and you can easily do a google search for the other artworks mentioned in the book. (Summary by Kara)

Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This first volume of his autobiography covers roughly the years of his birth through the end of the US Civil War. (Summary by JoeD)

Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the years from the US Civil War to roughly 1904. (Summary by JoeD)