But the stability of the book depends on its being a Temple of Fame, as well as a Diorama of Scenery.

For hundreds of miles, day after day, the steamer carried us past a shifting diorama of scenery, which may be likened to Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, repeated again and again, with every possible variation of the same type of delicate loveliness.

phantasm, phantom &c (fallacy of vision) 443. pageant, spectacle; peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show; ombres chinoises [Sp.]; magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views; biograph^, cinematograph, moving pictures; panorama, diorama, cosmorama^, georama^; coup de theatre, jeu de theatre

technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome; Polaroid. portrait &c (representation) 554; whole length, full length, half length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade, silhouette; profile. landscape, seapiece^; view, scene, prospect; panorama, diorama; still life.

In Switzerland too, where the annual fall of rain is 40 inches, the streets are always washed clean, an effect which is admirably represented in the view of Unterseen, now exhibiting at the Diorama.

Damascus from the Anti-LebanonEntering the CityA Diorama of BazaarsAn Oriental HotelOur ChamberThe BazaarsPipes and CoffeeThe Rivers of DamascusPalaces of the JewsJewish LadiesA Christian GentlemanThe Sacred LocalitiesDamascus BladesThe Sword of Haroun Al-RaschidAn Arrival from Palmyra. "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?"2 Kings, v. 12.

The place, as we rode along, presented a shifting diorama of delightful views.

But, while he was thus employed, the great building of the Diorama, with his own house, all his beautiful works, his valuable notes and papers, the labor of years of experiment, were, unknown to him, at that moment the prey of the flames.

I learn that his Diorama was insured, but to what extent I know not.

" While this mental diorama was unrolling, even Sicilian laziness had time to reach the shore; and passing by a rough mass of rocks, where our second cutter had once run too close for comfort, and the Friedland's launch had upset and lost two men, we at length landed close to the city gate.

He replied, that it was his custom, on going to bed, to call up, in the darkness and stillness, all the incidents of the day's experience, in their proper order, and cause them to move before him like a diorama through a spiritual morning, noon, and evening.

The term Diorama has, likewise, been strangely corrupted since its successful adoption in the Regent's Parkit being now almost indefinitely applied to any number or description of paintings.

He for the first time looked attentively at Haguna, as he had until now been gazing at the shifting diorama behind her.

He said he wished to express in music his impressions of Dante's "Divina Commedia," with a diorama of scenic effects.

To fit out the diorama, it needed about $15,000.

The diorama was never built, but it required a great many conferences, and it seemed appropriate that Liszt should visit her at her estate, Woronince.

The exhibition called the Diorama is merely a large painting prepared in accordance with the principle now explained.

The scene taken altogether is unquestionably one of the most extraordinary which the whole world affords, and this representation combines the advantages of the circular view of the panorama, the size and distance of the great diorama, and of the details being so minutely painted, that distant objects may be examined by a telescope or opera-glass.

Then Fred knew he had been looking at a diorama, and that the exhibition was over.

When the process is in full activity, I feel as if I were a mere spectator at a diorama of a very eccentric kind, and was in no way concerned with the getting up of the performance.

The latest stages of the process might be represented by a diorama.

* THE DIORAMA, REGENT'S PARK Has reopened with two new viewsParis from Montmartre, (by no means a new, but, perhaps, the best, point of view of the city,)and the famed Campo Santo of Pisa.

In one of the tanks he saw a landscape which appeared like that of another planet, grandiose yet at the same time reduced, like a woods seen in a diorama.

We have so often spoken in terms of the highest commendation of the Regent's Park Diorama, that we hardly know in what set of words to point out the beauties of these new views, the merits of which must not alter our meed of praise, however the subjects may its details.

So beautiful are the proportions of the cathedral itself, that its vastness does not strike at first sight, and this effect is admirably preserved in the Diorama.