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Title: Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants

Author: James H. Head

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HOME PASTIMES; OR TABLEAUX VIVANTS.

by

J. H. HEAD.

[Illustration: TABLEAUX VIVANTS.]

Boston:
J. E. Tilton And Company.
1860.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by
James H. Head,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

Electrotyped at the
Boston Stereotype Foundry.

TO

SAMUEL P. LONG, ESQ.,

AS AN HUMBLE TRIBUTE OF ADMIRATION FOR HIS ARTISTIC AND LITERARY
USEFULNESS,

AND TO THOSE FRIENDS WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED WITH ME IN MANY OF THESE
SCENES,

This Work

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

A sincere desire to extend the influence of a pure and ornamental art,
to promote and extend a perfect system of what is really beautiful in
the forming of the Tableau, to awaken in the minds of many a quicker
sense of the grace and elegance which familiar objects are capable of
affording, and to encourage all to cherish a taste for the beautiful,
have influenced the author to issue this volume.

Art should not be confined entirely to the studio of the artist. Her
presence should embellish every home; her spirit should animate every
mind. She is unwearied in her best and brightest attributes,
restricting her influence to no peculiar spot of earth, nor conforming
her claims to any one sphere. Beauty of form is still beautiful, be it