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Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley
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XXXVIII.--PAPER.

Made from leaves of trees--Peculiarities--Process of manufacture--
Healthful fragrance--Colour--"Natural" paper--GOLDEN COLOURED
PAPER--Its connection with the Allmanyuka--The incident which led
to its discovery


XXXIX.--CONSUMPTION--THE ÉMEUTE.

Consumption--Why generally beyond cure--Erroneous views--The
patient--Examination by the doctors--Their mistake--Narrator's
belief--Potion administered--Death--Cause discovered--Mode of
detecting and curing the disease in its germ--Assemblage of the
multitude--Episode of the mother and the child--The sequel


XL.--THE HARP.

The principal musical instrument--Description--Four sets of
chords--Strings of electricity--Marvellous variation and
depression of the notes--Echoes and responses--Diapason changed to
an extraordinary extent--Different characters of sound
produced--Examples--Harp language; how taught--Accompaniments--Harp
beautiful as a work of sculptural art--Movement of birds, flowers,
and foliage, and exhalation of perfume in accord with the
music--How idea was suggested

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