Literature Pick #114

The Four-Fifteen Express
by Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892)
A fantastic short story, first published in the Dec. 22, 1866 issue of Every Saturday (Vol. II No. 51).

David Roberts painting

Sphinx of Giza, partly under sand, with two pyramids in the background.
by David Roberts (1796-1864)
1838
Roberts was an Orientalist painter, he was born in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Philip James de Loutherbourg painting

The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen
by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812)
1788, oil on canvas, 52.9" x 77.9"

Henryk Siemiradzki painting

Conversation by the Spring
by Henryk Siemiradzki (1843–1902)
Oil on canvas laid on board, 21.26" x 39.37"
Siemiradzki was a Polish academic painter.

Literature Pick #113

The Light-house
by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
A short story from the 1918 book, Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others.

Edward Mitchell Bannister painting

Untitled (landscape, boat moored near stream, man walking in foreground)
by Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901)
1879, oil on canvas, 14" x 20"
Bannister was a Tonalist painter, he was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.

Literature Pick #112

The End of Time
by Wallace West (1900-1980)
A fantastic science fiction short story from the March 1933 issue of Astounding Stories.

George Henry Durrie painting

Cider Pressing
by George Henry Durrie (1820-1863)
1855, oil on canvas, 22.25" x 30.25"
Durrie was an American painter, he was born in Hartford, Connecticut.

Paul Wilhelm Keller-Reutlingen painting

Farmstead Under Clouds in Late Summer Light
by Paul Wilhelm Keller-Reutlingen (1854–1920)
oil on canvas, 29.13" x 41.73"
Keller-Reutlingen was a German painter, he was born in Reutlingen.

Carl Schultze painting

The Königssee in the Berchtesgadener Land
by Carl Schultze (born 1856)
oil on canvas, 29.5" x 38.2"
Schultze was a German painter, he was born in Düsseldorf.

Literature Pick #111

The White Island—A Story of the Dardanelles
by Edward Eyre Hunt (1885-1953)
From the 1918 book of short stories about World War I, Tales from a Famished Land.

Aleksander Gierymski painting

The Gate in the Old Town in Warsaw
by Aleksander Gierymski (1850–1901)
1883, oil on canvas, 25.1" × 19.2"
Gierymski was a Polish painter, he was born in Warsaw.

Literature Pick #110

A Michigan Man
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935)
First published in 1891 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: volume XLVII.

Moritz von Schwind painting

The Rose, or the Performer's Tour
by Moritz von Schwind (1804-1871)
1846-1847, Oil on Canvas, 85" x 52.7"
Schwind was an Austrian painter, he was born in Vienna.

Anders Christian Lunde painting

Italian Mountain Landscape. Scene by the vicinity of Subiaco.
by Anders Christian Lunde (1809–1886)
Oil on Paper Mounted on Canvas, 12.9" × 21.6"
Lunde was a Danish landscape painter, he was born in Copenhagen.