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Man behöver ju inte vara kruk-makare för att fascineras av kru-korna som man funnit i Mississippis dalgång. Boken med det pampiga namnet "Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley, Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436" av William H. Holmes är rikligt illustrerad, och inspirerar mig till arbeten i andra material än lera.
Jag är ingen operafantast — men en bok lå-ter ju inte, och jag kan inte motstå illustra-tionerna i "Physiology of The Opera" av John H. Swaby, en bok från 1852. Dessutom visar en snabb titt i boken att den är rolig.
THE Tenor is a small man, seldom exceeding the medium height. His voice is, comparatively speaking, a small voice, and consequently not likely to issue from over-grown lungs. His proportions are, or at least ought to be, as symmetrical as possible. His hair, nine times out of ten, is black, and always curls.Sometimes the tenor is seen riding out with the prima donna, with whom he is nearly always a favorite. He is the gentleman who makes himself useful in assisting her to destroy time; he performs for her those thousand and one little delicate attentions for which all women are so truly grateful; and then he sings with her every night those sentimental duos, that necessarily produce their effect upon the feminine bosom.
