THE ART OF WOOD-WORKING.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

  THE wood-worker's art has not yet found its historian. To say sooth, the task is laborious and demands a man with broad shoulders, patient and persistent, lenacem propositi vivum. To narrate the history of wood-working, that is to say, image-cutting, carpentry, ebonyworking, cabinet-work in all their varieties, from the astounding creations of the first Egyptian dynasties to the wood-working of the petits maitres of the eighteenth century; studying by the way the sandal-wood closures of the pagoda at Perou, and the gates at Somnath, the Diana of Ephesus which was of ebony, and the Juno Regina which was of cypress, the opus intestinum of the Romans and the chair of St.