The Book of Art for Young People
by Agnes Ethel Conway and Sir Martin Conway

Publication date 2008-07-25
Usage Public DomainCreative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, literature, audiobooks, art, art history, artists, children, non-fiction
LibriVox recording of The Book of Art for Young People, read by Kara Shallenberg.

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.

You may find downloadable versions of all sixteen paintings at http://www.archive.org/details/Book_of_Art_Illustrations_lv, and you can easily do a google search for the other artworks mentioned in the book. (Summary by Kara).
chapter 1 introduction to the book of art for young people this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org readers note to view the 16 beautiful full color illustrations that accompany this text please visit the online e-text at

dot o www.gutenberg.org g slash e text slash one seven three nine five the book of art for young people by agnes ethel conway and sir martin conway chapter one introduction almost the pleasantest thing in the world is to be told a splendid story by a really nice person there is not the least occasion for the story to be true indeed i think the untrue stories are the best those in which we meet delightful beasts and things that talk 20 times better than most human beings ever do and where extraordinary events happen in the kind of places that are not at all like our world of everyday it is so fine to be taken into a country where it is always summer and the birds are always singing and the flowers always blowing and where people get what they want by just wishing for it and are not told that this or that isn't good for them and that they'll know better than to want it when they're grown up and all that kind of thing which is so annoying and so often happening in this obstinate crisscross world where the days come and go in such an orderly fashion but if i might choose the person to tell me the kind of story i like to listen to and hear told to me over and over again it would be someone who could draw pictures for me while talking pictures like those of tenniel in alice and wonderland and through the looking glass how much better we know alice herself and the white knight and the mad hatter and all the rest of them from the pictures than even from the story itself but my storyteller should not only draw the pictures while he talked but he should paint them too i want to see the sky blue and the grass green and i want red cloaks and blue bonnets and pink cheeks and all the bright colors and some gold and silver too and not merely black and white though black and white drawings would be better than nothing so long as they showed me what the people and beasts and dragons and things were like i could put up with even rather bad drawings if only they were vivid don't you know how good a bad drawing sometimes seems i have a friend who can make the loveliest folks and the funniest beasts and the quaintest houses and trees and he really can't draw a bit and the curious thing is that if he could draw better i should not like his folks and beasts half as much as i do the lopsided legged crazy looking people he produces and then he has such quaint things to tell about them and while he talks he seems to make them live so that i can hardly believe they are not real people for all their unlikeness to anyone you ever saw now the old pictures you see in the picture galleries are just like that only the...

The Book of Art for Young People
by Agnes Ethel Conway and Sir Martin Conway

Publication date 2008-07-25
Usage Public DomainCreative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, literature, audiobooks, art, art history, artists, children, non-fiction
LibriVox recording of The Book of Art for Young People, read by Kara Shallenberg.

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.

You may find downloadable versions of all sixteen paintings at http://www.archive.org/details/Book_of_Art_Illustrations_lv, and you can easily do a google search for the other artworks mentioned in the book. (Summary by Kara).
chapter 1 introduction to the book of art for young people this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org readers note to view the 16 beautiful full color illustrations that accompany this text please visit the online e-text at

dot o www.gutenberg.org g slash e text slash one seven three nine five the book of art for young people by agnes ethel conway and sir martin conway chapter one introduction almost the pleasantest thing in the world is to be told a splendid story by a really nice person there is not the least occasion for the story to be true indeed i think the untrue stories are the best those in which we meet delightful beasts and things that talk 20 times better than most human beings ever do and where extraordinary events happen in the kind of places that are not at all like our world of everyday it is so fine to be taken into a country where it is always summer and the birds are always singing and the flowers always blowing and where people get what they want by just wishing for it and are not told that this or that isn't good for them and that they'll know better than to want it when they're grown up and all that kind of thing which is so annoying and so often happening in this obstinate crisscross world where the days come and go in such an orderly fashion but if i might choose the person to tell me the kind of story i like to listen to and hear told to me over and over again it would be someone who could draw pictures for me while talking pictures like those of tenniel in alice and wonderland and through the looking glass how much better we know alice herself and the white knight and the mad hatter and all the rest of them from the pictures than even from the story itself but my storyteller should not only draw the pictures while he talked but he should paint them too i want to see the sky blue and the grass green and i want red cloaks and blue bonnets and pink cheeks and all the bright colors and some gold and silver too and not merely black and white though black and white drawings would be better than nothing so long as they showed me what the people and beasts and dragons and things were like i could put up with even rather bad drawings if only they were vivid don't you know how good a bad drawing sometimes seems i have a friend who can make the loveliest folks and the funniest beasts and the quaintest houses and trees and he really can't draw a bit and the curious thing is that if he could draw better i should not like his folks and beasts half as much as i do the lopsided legged crazy looking people he produces and then he has such quaint things to tell about them and while he talks he seems to make them live so that i can hardly believe they are not real people for all their unlikeness to anyone you ever saw now the old pictures you see in the picture galleries are just like that only the...

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2
by Giorgio Vasari

Publication date 2014-07-12
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, history, art, biography, renaissance, art history, Italian literature, italian art
LibriVox recording of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2 by Giorgio Vasari. (Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere.)
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", and "the first important book on art history". The title is often abridged to the Vite or the Lives. - Summary by Wikipedia.
chapter one of lives of the most eminent painters sculptors and architects volume two this is a leave revox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by morgan scorpion lives of the most eminent painters sculptors and architects volume 2 by giorgio vasari translated by gaston ducey vere chapter one life of boner painter of sienna if those who labor to become excellent in some art did not very often have the thread of life cut by death in their best ears i have no doubt that many intellects would arrive at that rank which is most desired both by them and by the world but the short life of men and the bitterness of various accidents which threaten them from all sides snatched them from us sometimes prematurely as could be seen in poor young boner of siena who although he died young nevertheless left so many works that he appears to have lived very long and those that he left were made in such a way that it may well be believed from this showing that he would have become excellent and rare if he had not died so soon in two chapels of saint agostino in siena there are seen some little pictures with figures in fresco by his hand and in the church on a wall now pulled down in order to make chapels there was a scene of a youth led to execution as well made as it could possibly be imagined their being seen expressed in it the power and fear of death in so life like a manner that he deserved therefore the highest praise beside the said youth was a fire painted in a very fine attitude and in short everything in that work is so vividly wrought that it appears indeed that in this work burner imagined this event as most horrible as it must be and full of most bitter and cool terror seeing that he portrayed it so well with the brush that the same scene appearing in reality would not stir greater emotion in the city of cortona also besides many other works scattered in many places in that city he painted the greater part of the vaulting and of the walls of the church of santa margherita where today is the seat of the flatison callante from cortona he went to orezo in the year 1369. exactly when the tarlati formerly lords of pietro mala had caused mocchio a sculptor and architect of siena to finish the convent and the body of the church of saint agostino in that city in the lesser aisles of which many citizens had caused chapels and tombs to be made for their families and there in the chapel of san jacopol berna painted in fresco some little scenes of the life of that saint and especially vivid is the story of mourinho the swindler who having by reason of greed of gold given his soul to the devil and made there unto a written contract in his own hand is making supplication to the saint to free him from this...

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2
by Giorgio Vasari

Publication date 2014-07-12
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, history, art, biography, renaissance, art history, Italian literature, italian art
LibriVox recording of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2 by Giorgio Vasari. (Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere.)
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", and "the first important book on art history". The title is often abridged to the Vite or the Lives. - Summary by Wikipedia.
chapter one of lives of the most eminent painters sculptors and architects volume two this is a leave revox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by morgan scorpion lives of the most eminent painters sculptors and architects volume 2 by giorgio vasari translated by gaston ducey vere chapter one life of boner painter of sienna if those who labor to become excellent in some art did not very often have the thread of life cut by death in their best ears i have no doubt that many intellects would arrive at that rank which is most desired both by them and by the world but the short life of men and the bitterness of various accidents which threaten them from all sides snatched them from us sometimes prematurely as could be seen in poor young boner of siena who although he died young nevertheless left so many works that he appears to have lived very long and those that he left were made in such a way that it may well be believed from this showing that he would have become excellent and rare if he had not died so soon in two chapels of saint agostino in siena there are seen some little pictures with figures in fresco by his hand and in the church on a wall now pulled down in order to make chapels there was a scene of a youth led to execution as well made as it could possibly be imagined their being seen expressed in it the power and fear of death in so life like a manner that he deserved therefore the highest praise beside the said youth was a fire painted in a very fine attitude and in short everything in that work is so vividly wrought that it appears indeed that in this work burner imagined this event as most horrible as it must be and full of most bitter and cool terror seeing that he portrayed it so well with the brush that the same scene appearing in reality would not stir greater emotion in the city of cortona also besides many other works scattered in many places in that city he painted the greater part of the vaulting and of the walls of the church of santa margherita where today is the seat of the flatison callante from cortona he went to orezo in the year 1369. exactly when the tarlati formerly lords of pietro mala had caused mocchio a sculptor and architect of siena to finish the convent and the body of the church of saint agostino in that city in the lesser aisles of which many citizens had caused chapels and tombs to be made for their families and there in the chapel of san jacopol berna painted in fresco some little scenes of the life of that saint and especially vivid is the story of mourinho the swindler who having by reason of greed of gold given his soul to the devil and made there unto a written contract in his own hand is making supplication to the saint to free him from this...

The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness by Florence Hartley 1 Conversation

The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness by Florence Hartley 1 Conversation

Etiquette Made Easy
by Edward Summers Squier

Publication date 2020-10-01
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, manners, etiquette, made easy series
LibriVox recording of Etiquette Made Easy by Edward Summers Squier.
Read in English by KevinS; Yvonne Theodor; Falcon; Ruth P.; Lydia H; dnce17; Mayah; Valentina Vocelli; Lynda Marie Neilson; Charlotte Weeks; InsPri; Andrew Gaunce; Jenn Broda; Christine Lehman; Nimaya Grace
"A complete dictionary [sic] containing the right information for any and all occasions." (From the book's dust jacket.) - Summary by Kevin
chapter one at homes of etiquette made easy this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for information or to volunteer please visit librebox.org recording by yvonne theodore etiquette made easy by edward squire at homes the afternoon tea is perhaps the most popular of social functions and deservedly so since it is essentially of the utmost simplicity yet may be expanded into a most elaborate social affair in the original simple form the hostess merely welcomes her guests as they come to her on her regular day at home in the drawing room and there offers them a cup of tea served by herself and light refreshments a sandwiches and cakes and the like the next development in the tea is in the nature of a small afternoon reception or at home for this occasion the hostess issues invitations a week in advance a visiting card serves the purpose with a line written below the name wednesday june 4th from 4 until 7 o'clock if there is to be a guest of honor an additional line may indicate the fact to me the procedure for the host to set a function of this sort is more formal it is usual to have the refreshments in the dining room though they should not be of an elaborate character the teapot is placed at one end of the table and presided over by some friend since the obligations of the hostess prevent her rendering this hospital service in person the third stage of the afternoon tea has come to take the place of the old time reception though it bears merely the designation at home the requisite invitations must be sent out anytime from a week to a fortnight before the date set for these an engraved form is essential they are printed on heavy white bristol board of the quality described for dinner invitations and enclosed in a single envelope they may be issued in the name of the hostess alone or in the names of a hostess and her daughter or daughters or in the names of husband and wife though this last is a very modern innovation the following will serve as a model mrs james french putnam at home april the 7th from 4 until 7 o'clock 208 flag avenue if the husband joins with the wife and issuing the invitations the only change is in the first line mr and mrs james french putnam where a daughter is to receive with her mother the girl's name appears just below that of the matron mrs james french putnam miss putnam where there are two or more daughters thus associated with the mother they are included under one title thus mrs james french putnam the mrs putnam when a younger sister is to appear at her debut her name in full is given a line after those of her mother and elder sister mrs james french putnam miss putnam miss helen louise putnam in the event of a guest of honor the invitation may emphasize the presence of this personage by a special engraved announcement at the head of the invitation to meet the remainder of the invitation will follow any of the forms indicated above or the announcement may appear in one engraved line at the foot of the invitation to meet at a reception of this character the hostess is obliged to remain on duty near the door of the drawing room throughout the hour set but a husband and daughter receiving with her though expected to join her in receiving the guests at the outset and for a considerable time afterward is not...

Etiquette Made Easy
by Edward Summers Squier

Publication date 2020-10-01
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, manners, etiquette, made easy series
LibriVox recording of Etiquette Made Easy by Edward Summers Squier.
Read in English by KevinS; Yvonne Theodor; Falcon; Ruth P.; Lydia H; dnce17; Mayah; Valentina Vocelli; Lynda Marie Neilson; Charlotte Weeks; InsPri; Andrew Gaunce; Jenn Broda; Christine Lehman; Nimaya Grace
"A complete dictionary [sic] containing the right information for any and all occasions." (From the book's dust jacket.) - Summary by Kevin
chapter one at homes of etiquette made easy this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for information or to volunteer please visit librebox.org recording by yvonne theodore etiquette made easy by edward squire at homes the afternoon tea is perhaps the most popular of social functions and deservedly so since it is essentially of the utmost simplicity yet may be expanded into a most elaborate social affair in the original simple form the hostess merely welcomes her guests as they come to her on her regular day at home in the drawing room and there offers them a cup of tea served by herself and light refreshments a sandwiches and cakes and the like the next development in the tea is in the nature of a small afternoon reception or at home for this occasion the hostess issues invitations a week in advance a visiting card serves the purpose with a line written below the name wednesday june 4th from 4 until 7 o'clock if there is to be a guest of honor an additional line may indicate the fact to me the procedure for the host to set a function of this sort is more formal it is usual to have the refreshments in the dining room though they should not be of an elaborate character the teapot is placed at one end of the table and presided over by some friend since the obligations of the hostess prevent her rendering this hospital service in person the third stage of the afternoon tea has come to take the place of the old time reception though it bears merely the designation at home the requisite invitations must be sent out anytime from a week to a fortnight before the date set for these an engraved form is essential they are printed on heavy white bristol board of the quality described for dinner invitations and enclosed in a single envelope they may be issued in the name of the hostess alone or in the names of a hostess and her daughter or daughters or in the names of husband and wife though this last is a very modern innovation the following will serve as a model mrs james french putnam at home april the 7th from 4 until 7 o'clock 208 flag avenue if the husband joins with the wife and issuing the invitations the only change is in the first line mr and mrs james french putnam where a daughter is to receive with her mother the girl's name appears just below that of the matron mrs james french putnam miss putnam where there are two or more daughters thus associated with the mother they are included under one title thus mrs james french putnam the mrs putnam when a younger sister is to appear at her debut her name in full is given a line after those of her mother and elder sister mrs james french putnam miss putnam miss helen louise putnam in the event of a guest of honor the invitation may emphasize the presence of this personage by a special engraved announcement at the head of the invitation to meet the remainder of the invitation will follow any of the forms indicated above or the announcement may appear in one engraved line at the foot of the invitation to meet at a reception of this character the hostess is obliged to remain on duty near the door of the drawing room throughout the hour set but a husband and daughter receiving with her though expected to join her in receiving the guests at the outset and for a considerable time afterward is not...

Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home by Emily Post Introduction Free Book.
introduction of etiquette this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org

etiquette in society in business in politics and at home by emily post introduction manners and morals by richard duffy many who scoff at a book of etiquette would be shocked to hear the least expression of levity touching the ten commandments but the commandments do not always prevent such virtuous scoffers from dealings with their neighbor of which no gentleman could be capable and retain his claim to the title though it may require ingenuity to reconcile their actions with the decalogue the ingenuity is always forthcoming there is no intention in this remark to intimate that there is any higher rule of life than the ten commandments only it is illuminating as showing the relationship between manners and morals which is too often overlooked the polished gentleman of sentimental fiction has so long served as the type of smooth and conscienceless depravity that urbanity of demeanor inspires distrust in rooter minds on the other hand the blunt unpolished hero of melodrama and romantic fiction has lifted bruskness and pushfulness to a pedestal not wholly merited consequently the kinship between conduct that keeps us within the law and conduct that makes civilized life worthy to be called such deserves to be noted with emphasis the chinese sage confucius could not tolerate the suggestion that virtue is in itself enough without politeness for he viewed them as inseparable and saw courtesies as coming from the heart maintaining that when they are practiced with all the heart a moral elevation ensues

people who ridicule etiquette as a mass of trivial and arbitrary conventions extremely troublesome to those who practice them and insupportable to everybody else seem to forget the long slow progress of social intercourse in the upward climb of man from the primeval state conventions were established from the first to regulate the rights of the individual and the tribe they were and are the rules of the game of life and must be followed if we would play the game ages before man felt the need of indigestion remedies he ate his food solitary and furtive in some corner hoping he would not be aspired by any stronger and hungrier fellow it was a long long time before the habit of eating in common was acquired and it is obvious that the practice could not have been taken up with safety until the individuals of the race knew enough about one another and about the food resources to be sure that there was food sufficient for all when eating in common became the vogue table manners made their appearance and they have been waging an uphill struggle ever since the custom of raising the hat when meeting an acquaintance derives from the old rule that friendly nights in accosting each other should raise the visor for mutual recognition in amity in the nightly years it must be remembered it was important to know whether one was meeting friend or foe meeting a foe meant fighting on the spot thus it is evident that the conventions of courtesy not only tend to make the wheels of life run more smoothly but also act as safeguards in human relationship imagine the paris peace conference or any of the later conferences in europe without the protective armor of diplomatic etiquette nevertheless to some the very word etiquette is an irritant it implies a great pother about trifles these conscientious objectors assure us and trifles are unimportant trifles are unimportant it is true but then life is made up of trifles to those who dislike the word it suggests all that is finical and superfluous it means a garish embroidery on the big scheme of life a clog on the forward march of a strong and courageous nation to such as these the words etiquette and politeness connote...

Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home by Emily Post Introduction Free Book.
introduction of etiquette this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org

etiquette in society in business in politics and at home by emily post introduction manners and morals by richard duffy many who scoff at a book of etiquette would be shocked to hear the least expression of levity touching the ten commandments but the commandments do not always prevent such virtuous scoffers from dealings with their neighbor of which no gentleman could be capable and retain his claim to the title though it may require ingenuity to reconcile their actions with the decalogue the ingenuity is always forthcoming there is no intention in this remark to intimate that there is any higher rule of life than the ten commandments only it is illuminating as showing the relationship between manners and morals which is too often overlooked the polished gentleman of sentimental fiction has so long served as the type of smooth and conscienceless depravity that urbanity of demeanor inspires distrust in rooter minds on the other hand the blunt unpolished hero of melodrama and romantic fiction has lifted bruskness and pushfulness to a pedestal not wholly merited consequently the kinship between conduct that keeps us within the law and conduct that makes civilized life worthy to be called such deserves to be noted with emphasis the chinese sage confucius could not tolerate the suggestion that virtue is in itself enough without politeness for he viewed them as inseparable and saw courtesies as coming from the heart maintaining that when they are practiced with all the heart a moral elevation ensues

people who ridicule etiquette as a mass of trivial and arbitrary conventions extremely troublesome to those who practice them and insupportable to everybody else seem to forget the long slow progress of social intercourse in the upward climb of man from the primeval state conventions were established from the first to regulate the rights of the individual and the tribe they were and are the rules of the game of life and must be followed if we would play the game ages before man felt the need of indigestion remedies he ate his food solitary and furtive in some corner hoping he would not be aspired by any stronger and hungrier fellow it was a long long time before the habit of eating in common was acquired and it is obvious that the practice could not have been taken up with safety until the individuals of the race knew enough about one another and about the food resources to be sure that there was food sufficient for all when eating in common became the vogue table manners made their appearance and they have been waging an uphill struggle ever since the custom of raising the hat when meeting an acquaintance derives from the old rule that friendly nights in accosting each other should raise the visor for mutual recognition in amity in the nightly years it must be remembered it was important to know whether one was meeting friend or foe meeting a foe meant fighting on the spot thus it is evident that the conventions of courtesy not only tend to make the wheels of life run more smoothly but also act as safeguards in human relationship imagine the paris peace conference or any of the later conferences in europe without the protective armor of diplomatic etiquette nevertheless to some the very word etiquette is an irritant it implies a great pother about trifles these conscientious objectors assure us and trifles are unimportant trifles are unimportant it is true but then life is made up of trifles to those who dislike the word it suggests all that is finical and superfluous it means a garish embroidery on the big scheme of life a clog on the forward march of a strong and courageous nation to such as these the words etiquette and politeness connote...