[Footnote 1: "The rishi," says Eitel, "is a man whose bodily frame has undergone a certain transformation by dint of meditation and asceticism, so that he is, for an indefinite period, exempt from decrepitude, age, and death.

If the atmosphere of Vernon can work such transformation as this, it ought to be bottled up and sold at twenty dollars the dozen.

The fact is that the past ten years have witnessed a truly marvelous transformation in the ideas of Oriental peoples, and the East, in its capacity to assimilate Western theories of government, and in its willingness to fight for them against everything that tradition makes sacred, has of late years shown a phase heretofore almost unknown.

They had effected a complete transformation of the old house.

Formerly I spent hours and hours watching the transformations in the clouds, or gazing at a solitary tree in the plain or a high rock, without knowing why, without being able to explain the vague feelings they awoke in me.

The finest poetry was first experience; but the thought has suffered a transformation since it was an experience.

He wanted to complete the transformation with a cream-colored Fedora or a brown derby.

I persuaded myself that I was but now beginning; that there had been no reality in these latter experiences, only a curious succession of nightmares, such as might so well be supposed to follow a wonderful transformation like that which must take place between our mortal life andthe world to come.

This is a better good night!" CHAPTER XXVI Mrs. Benedek was the first to notice the transformation which had certainly taken place in Norgate's appearance.

The other hand followed, and, as the sheriff snapped the lock, he saw a singular transformation in the figure of his captive.

For this reason we believe that the study of the criminal, and the logical consequences therefrom, will bring about the complete transformation of human justice, not only as a theory laid down in scientific books, but also as a practical function applied every day to that living and suffering portion of humanity which has fallen into crime.

But when Rinaldo beheld himself indeed,when he read his transformation, not in the flattering glass of the enchantress, but by the light of this true, and simple, and severe reflector,his hair tricked out with flowers and unguents, his soft mantle of exquisitest dye, and his very sword rendered undistinguishable for what it was by a garland,shame and remorse fell upon him.

But when all this is said and done, the position of the people of Fayal is an abject one, that is, it is a European position; it teaches more of history in a day to an untravelled American than all his studies had told him besides,and he returns home ready to acquiesce in a thousand dissatisfactions, in view of that most wondrous of all recorded social changes, the transformation of the European peasant into the American citizen.

By more or less of heat the seasons accomplish their wonderful transformations on the earth and in the air.

His most famous work was his "Metamorphoses," mythologic legends involving transformations,a most poetical and imaginative production.

And he attempted to refer to one general law all the transformations of the first simple substance into its successive states, in that the cause of change is the eternal motion of the air.

It represented the gradual transformation of the characters of men under the influence of God's truth and spirit working in their minds.

Thus an early stage of a rose-bud may be said to be "lower" than its later stage because it requires a greater transformation before it produces the bloom.

The crinkly ovals that form the brim of the hat, and the soft, graceful arrangement of the hair in front that decreases the too broad effect of the brow, and the full fluffy ruff snuggled up closely to the chin, produce a pleasing transformation of the meagre-looking original that to the uninitiated seems little short of magical.

Bishop Courtenay, in the last years of the fifteenth century, lengthened the Lady Chapel, and finally Bishop Fox in the very beginning of the sixteenth century began the transformation of the early fourteenth century Presbytery, but got little further than the insertion of the Perpendicular windows.

He is a veritable Proteusyou never know what shape he will take next; Omnia transformat sese in miracula rerum we can trace no less than six such transformations in the story of his life.

But Markheim did not pause to watch or understand the transformation.

The universal feeling that the concept needs correction betrays itself in the fact that everyone involuntarily adds a cause to the change in thought, and seeks a cause for it, and thus of himself undertakes a transformation of the concept, though, it is true, an inadequate one.

" [Footnote 3: "This," says Mr. Hill, "will please those who prefer the topical method, while it does not forbid the easy transformation of topics to questions, which others may demand."

There is an unfortunate tendency in Italy to misread the whole situation on the eastern Adriatic, to ignore the transformation which the revival of Southern Slav consciousness has wrought in lands which once owned the supremacy of Venice.