This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... 31 JKrtttw-Book tDithcmt pictures. It Is wonderful! When my heart feel* tne mo it warmly, and my emotions are the noblest, it is as if my hands and my tonaue were tied; I cannot describe, I cannot express my own inward state; an DEGREES yet I am a painter; my eye tells me so; and every one who has seen my sketches and my tablets acknowledges it. I am a poor youth; I live over theie in one of the narrowest streets, but I have no want of light, because I live up aloft, with a view over all the house-tops. The first day 1 came into the city it seemed to me so confined and lonesome; instead of the woods and the M green breezy heights, I had only the grey chimneys as far as I could see. I did not possess one friend here; not a single face which I Knew saluted me. One evening, very much depressed in mind, 1 stood at my window; I opened it and look ed out. Nay, how glad it made me; I saw a face which I knew; a round, friendly face, that of my dearest friend in heaven; it was the Moon--the dear old Moon, the very same, precisely the same, as when she peeped at me between the willow trees on the marshes. I kissed my hand to her; she shone right down into my chamber, and promised me, that every night when she was out she would take a peep at me. And she has honestly kept her word--pity only that she can remain for so short a time! Every night she comes she tells me one thing or another which she has seen either that night or the night before. "Make a sketch ' said she, on her first visit, "of what I tell thee, and thus thou shalt make a really beautiful picture-book!" This I have clone; and in this way I might give a new Thousand and One Nights in pictures: but that would be too much; those which I have given have not been selected, but are just...