. St. Nicholas [serial] . A SMALL MUSICIAN. In the sunny South, at the rivers mouth, Sat a crab by the sounding sea,And he played him a tune by the light of the moon,For a fiddler-crab was he. Norman W. AN OPTICAL ILLUSION. By B. C. J. There is a remarkable picture painted bythe celebrated English painter Hogarth. It iscalled False Perspective. There are housesin the foreground, a stream in the middle dis-tance, and a hill in the background. In a spiritof humor, Hogarth has filled the picture withimpossibilities from the standpoint of perspec-tive, and yet at the first glance a carel
. St. Nicholas [serial] . A SMALL MUSICIAN. In the sunny South, at the rivers mouth, Sat a crab by the sounding sea,And he played him a tune by the light of the moon,For a fiddler-crab was he. Norman W. AN OPTICAL ILLUSION. By B. C. J. There is a remarkable picture painted bythe celebrated English painter Hogarth. It iscalled False Perspective. There are housesin the foreground, a stream in the middle dis-tance, and a hill in the background. In a spiritof humor, Hogarth has filled the picture withimpossibilities from the standpoint of perspec-tive, and yet at the first glance a careless ob-server would detect nothing wrong in it. Here is a somewhat similar picture thatshows what a queer-looking jumble would re-sult if the artist should neglect the rules of per-spective in parts of his drawing and follow themin others. If you were asked to point out which of thethree elephants and which of the three giraffestraveling through the long, queer-looking cor-ridor or bridge shown in the accompanyingpicture are the tallest, would you not at onceplace your finger upon the hindmost animals ?The giraffe that brings up the rear seems to overtop the other two, and the elephant infront appears but
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