Descriptive Zoopraxography Part 6

"The ZOOPRAXISCOPE is the latest, most unique, and instructive form of amus.e.m.e.nt possible."--_Commercial Gazette_, Cincinnati.

"His work at once attracted the attention of the world."--_Scientific American_, New York.

"Of much interest and value, as well as a source of great amus.e.m.e.nt."--_Observer, London._

"The realism of the motions of the various animals was intense, and the audience was very enthusiastic."--_Boston Post._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 39. HORSE TROTTING (fast).]

"The Lecturer proceeded to show enlarged photographs of various animals in motion, as the horse, dog, lion, mule, cat, etc.... These were followed by some very striking pictures of the flight of birds, which from a scientific standpoint were by far the most interesting and valuable of the photographs shown during the evening."--_Lancet_, London.

"Of extreme interest, not only to the artists and scientists, but to the greater part of his audience, who were neither the one or the other."--_Birmingham Daily Gazette._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 41. HORSE CANTERING.]

"A host of well-known scientists and artists are greatly interested in this remarkable work."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

"The lecture on Tuesday night more than fulfilled the expectations which the audience had formed of Mr. Muybridge's researches."--_Belfast News Letter._

"Mr. Muybridge might well be proud of the reception accorded him by his distinguished audience; it would have been difficult to add to the _eclat_ of his appearance, and his lecture was welcomed by a warmth as hearty as it was spontaneous."--_The Photographic News, London._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 42. HORSE GALLOPING.]

"The ill.u.s.trations are truly wonderful, and the rapid changing positions were most instructive."--_Nottingham Express._

"The concert room was crowded.... A vote of thanks to the Lecturer was proposed by his Grace the Archbishop."--_Yorks.h.i.+re Chronicle._

"A very brilliant audience was a.s.sembled at the Royal Inst.i.tution.... The photographs properly studied should be most valuable in affording truer and more exact data for the painter to base his work upon...."--_The Builder, London._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 43. HORSE JUMPING.]

"A very important subject to all those interested in art."--_Belfast News Letter._

"It is now nine years since the photographs of Mr. Eadweard Muybridge surprised the world by challenging all received conceptions of animal motion."--_Century Magazine, New York._

"The interest excited by the novelty, both of the demonstrations and the results, was so great, that Mr. Muybridge has been invited by the Photographic Society of Ireland to repeat them to-night in a public lecture."--_The Freeman's Journal, Dublin._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 44. HORSE HAULING.]

"The audience filled the large hall, and by their frequent and hearty applause, expressed their appreciation of the lecture."--_Irish Times, Dublin._

"A very large audience again a.s.sembled in the Town Hall last evening, on the occasion of the second Lecture by Mr. Muybridge. The Mayor, who presided, referred to the first Lecture as perhaps the most unique ever delivered in Birmingham."--_Birmingham Daily Gazette._

"The attendance was exceedingly large, and the Lecture and admirable ill.u.s.trations were loudly applauded."--_The Irish Times, Dublin._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 45. COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION HORSE RACE, GALLOPING.]

"There was a very large attendance, and seldom have we seen so much genuine admiration and enthusiasm displayed as were evoked by Mr. Muybridge's ill.u.s.trations, which were really wonderful."--_The Daily Express, Dublin._

"There was a crowded audience, and the Lecture, which was listened to with the greatest interest, was warmly applauded."--_The Freeman's Journal, Dublin._

"No description can do justice to the extent and variety of the subjects presented in this thorough study of animal movements."--_Ledger_, Philadelphia.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 46. COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION HORSE RACE, TROTTING.]

"Wonderful and interesting demonstration; its influence will become more and more potent and universal as the years go on."--_Argus, Albany._

"Will necessarily revolutionize the treatment of the action of the horse in painting and sculpture. For the physiological study of animal movements these pictures are a veritable treasure."--_Landwirthschaftliche-Zeitung, Vienna._

"I am lost with admiration of these photographs of Mr.

Muybridge."--PROFESSOR MAREY, in _La Nature, Paris._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 47. COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION SPEEDWAY.]

"Interesting and instructive to all."--_New York Herald._

"Highly interesting and valuable for every lover of horses."--_Ill.u.s.trirte Zeitung, Berlin._

"We cannot more fittingly conclude our review than by repeating our recommendation of the work to all artistic and scientific bodies."--_The Nation, New York._

"So perfect was the synthesis that a dog in the lecture room barked and endeavored to chase the phantom horses as they galloped across the screen."--_Berkeley Weekly News._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 48. VILLAGE BLACKSMITHS.]

"Noted artists, such as Menzel, Knaus, Begas; eminent scientists, such as von Helmholtz, Siemens and Forster and even the imperturbable field-marshal, Count von Moltke, were enthusiastic in their applause."--_Ill.u.s.trirte Zeitung._

"A very large number could not obtain admission, so great was the desire to hear the lecture.... A wonderful surprise even to the careful observer of Nature."--_Die Press_, Vienna.

"The lecture was received with stormy applause."--_Berliner Post_, Berlin.

"The lecture was given in a popular manner, with scientific accuracy and artistic taste.... The room was filled to the last corner; nearly all the Royal Family and the Ministers were present."--_Munchener Neueste Nachrichten_, Munich.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 49. A FAN FLIRTATION.]

"After attending Mr. Muybridge's demonstrations, we felt no surprise at his having been received so enthusiastically in Paris."--_Berliner Tageblatt_, Berlin.

"The lectures of Mr. Muybridge are unquestionably the most intensely interesting we ever listened to. No one in Berlin should fail to attend them."--_Norddeutsch Allgem Zeitung_, Berlin.

"Some lectures are too technical for the general public. Here is one in which everybody is interested. The Lecture Theatre was crammed to repletion; we thought a few vacant places might have been reserved for those whose pleasant duty it is to record the brilliant success of Mr.

Muybridge."--_Pall Mall Budget_, London.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 50. ATHLETE, RUNNING LONG JUMP.]

"So great an interest did the demonstrations excite that Mr. Muybridge was unanimously requested to repeat them. Two days afterward this distinguished company, including the venerable Field-Marshal (Count von Moltke) himself, attended a repet.i.tion of the lecture."--_Ill.u.s.trirte Zeitung._