To turn over volume after volume is like watching a splendid panorama of all the busy life of the time.

Minute care is as striking in them as their comprehensiveness.

The smallest tool, the knot in a thread, the ply in a cord, the curve of wrist or finger, each has special and proper delineation.

The reader smiles at a complete and elaborate set of tailor's patterns.

He shudders as he comes upon the knives, the probes, the bandages, the posture, of the wretch about to undergo the most dangerous operation in surgery.