The Leisure Hour (page 2/3)

Front Cover, The Leisure Hour

Blue cloth with black and gold printing; a fine cover for this collection of The Leisure Hour from 1896.

Title Page, the Leisure Hour

Title page from “The Leisure Hour”—this was a monthly magazine, and this book is all of the issues for the year 1896, bound together. The engraving is signed J.H. Hipsley. [more...]

The Robin’s Christmas Carol

A robin redbreast sits on a sprig of holly and sings. The holly has berries. In the background is a winter scene with a snow-covered house. [more...]

In Single File

Three ladies skating on ice one after the other, holding on to a pole. They are Dutch, and have the clogs to prove it.

Sleighing

A driver and two passengers (a man and a woman) ride a horse-driven sleigh over the ice. The image, which is printed using a dot-screen method to simulate gray, is signed Davey, and also (I think) Carson. [more...]

Darjeeling Railway 1

“India can show a most interesting experiment in railway constructioon in the recently built line to Darjeeling, on the slopes of the Himalayas. The problem to be solved by its projectors was how to construct a railway for goods and passenger traffic which shouold rise to a height of 7,000 feet in a distance of forty-five miles. The distance as the [...] [more...]

Darjeeling Railway 2

“The line has done wonders in the development of a valuable tea district, and is returning a revenue to the Treasury of India of about £20,000 a year, [...] [more...]

Golden Strings

By permission of the Berlin Photographic Company
By J. M. Strudwick. [more...]

Molly Sat Waiting For Her Father

An attrctive young lady sits gazing out of an open window into a rose garden. She is dressed in Victorian costume, with a tight corset. She is in love. [more...]

Apteryx Mantelli. From a Photograph.

The Apteryx is the name given to the genus of birds moer commonly known as the kiwi; they are native to New Zealand. The Apteryx Mantelli is the north Island Brown Kiwi bird. [more...]

Axis Deer (Calcutta)

Axis Deer photographed by Gambier Bolton, F.Z.S. (Fellow of the Zoological Society), accompanying the article on the London Zoo, but it is not clear whether they are mentioned [...] [more...]