"If these geographical puzzles excite the mirth of children, the amusement of the moment may lead to the profitable curiosity of youthful students and embue the mind with a healthful taste for foreign lands."
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Empress of cooks, of fashions, and the dance.
Her flatt'ring glass declares that vict'ry pwer,
Beauty, wealth, arts, are her imperial dower.
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To England dear. Her royal spirit quails;
From skating faint, she rests upon the snow;
Shrinking from unclean beasts that grin below.
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His wind bag broken, wearing his clay clogs;
Yet, strong of heart, a fitting emblem makes
For Scotland - land of heroes and of cakes.
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Mad Paul, and Nicholas, poor shadows wander
Out in the cold; while Emperor A. the Second
In Eagles, Priests, and Bears supreme is reckoned.
Aleph tells us that a 14 year old girl produced these caricatured maps by way of entertainment for her brother who was ill in bed. The series of 12 colour lithographs were released by the journalist/author William Harvey in 1869 using a pseudonym and the quote above is from the introduction. Each of the 12 European countries depicted in one form or other of stereotype includes a small descriptive verse.
2 comments :
my god!!!!
it is just as if you know what i like!
arriving to your place, is for me, like being in front of huge candy box :)
Heh. Actually it's because of you that I found this - I came across it when searching about that map the other day !
So thanks.
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