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Adventure game adventure game a game in which the player navigates through an interac- tive story, solving puzzles and exploring areas. There may be multiple endings to the game, and the player’s actions determine which ending is reached. Adventure games test reasoning skills instead of reflexes. The first adventure games, such as Zork, had no graphics, [...]

Cacao Markets From the Plantation to the European Market. SURF BOATS BY THE SIDE OF THE OCEAN LINER, ACCRA. It is mentioned above that on the Gold Coast cacao is brought down to Accra as head-loads, or in barrels, or in motor-lorries. These methods are exceptional; in other countries it is usually put in sacks [...]

A Portrait by Nattier Inset Above a Fine Old Mantel Perhaps the guest in your house would not be so troublesome, but don’t tempt her! If you have a fireplace, see that it is in working order.We are sure to judge a woman in whose house we find ourselves for the first time, by her [...]

            ELECTRICITY FOR BOYS Fig. 1. WORK BENCH THE “HOW-TO-DO-IT” BOOKS ELECTRICITY FOR BOYS A working guide, in the successive steps of electricity, described in simple terms WITH MANY ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS By J. S. ZERBE, M.E. AUTHOR OF CARPENTRY FOR BOYSPRACTICAL MECHANICS FOR BOYS THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY New York Release Date: September 25, [...]

Studies from Nature-Birds & Beasts The Introduction of Animal Forms—Rude Vitality Better than Dull “Natural History”—”Action”—Difficulties of the Study for Town-Bred Students—The Aid of Books and Photographs—Outline Drawing and Suggestion of Main Masses—Sketch-Book Studies, Sections, and Notes—Swiss Animal Carving—The Clay Model: its Use and Abuse. Nothing enlivens or gives more variety of interest to wood-carving [...]

Museums False Impressions Fostered by Fragmentary Exhibits—Environment as Important as Handicraft—Works Viewed as Records of Character—Carvers the Historians of their Time. A new world of commerce and machinery, having slain and forgotten a past race of artist craftsmen, makes clumsy atonement by sweeping together the fragments of their work and calling the collection a museum. [...]

Student and Apprentice, their Aims and Conditions of Work—Necessity for some Equality between Theory and Practise—The Student’s Opportunity lies on the Side of Design. The study of some form of handicraft has of late years become an important element in the training of an art student. It is with the object of assisting such with [...]

The woman’s attire would have been chiefly a shortish skirt or wrap of coarse linen, wool, or leather, gathered in front or folded at one hip; grass cloth may also have been in use in most primitive tribes. Probably the upper part of the body was kept bare, except for many ornaments and necklaces, but [...]

The memory of last summer is presented to me now as a series of pictures, some brilliant, others vague, others again so uncertain that I cannot be sure how far they are true memories of actual occurrences, and how far they are interwoven with my thoughts and dreams. I have, for instance, a recollection of [...]

Stott maintained an obstinate silence as we walked together up to the Common, a stretch of comparatively open ground on the plateau of the hill. He walked with his hands in his pockets and his head down, as he had walked out from Ailesworth with me nearly three years before, but his mood was changed. [...]