Restoring the Lost Sense

An illustration from an 1897 issue of The Ludgate Illustrated magazine.

An illustration from an 1869 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Philosophy in the air."

An illustration from a 1900 issue of English Illustrated magazine.

An illustration from a 1902 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption reads: "I called the ball and it rolled and wobbled towards me, and I sent it away and it rolled away, and I told it to stop and it stood still."

An illustration from a 1903 issue of English Illustrated magazine.  The caption reads: "I saw the hawk-headed chap promenading slowly up and down the room."

The ideal vs. the actual: an illustration from an 1892 issue of English Illustrated magazine.

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "On the fourth day comes the astrologer from his crumbling old tower."

An illustration from a 1915 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "As he got up and stepped toward a bell, I discovered that he had been sitting on Filber!"

"What does it mean?": an illustration from an 1897 issue of The Ludgate Illustrated magazine.

An illustration from an 1889 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "Out of the darkness something white shaped itself."

An illustration from an 1853 issue of Graham's magazine.

An illustration from a 1902 edition of Vaught's Practical Character Reader.  The headline reads: "The center of mental concentration."

An illustration from an 1897 issue of The Ludgate Illustrated magazine.  The caption reads: "Look!  He has no shadow!"

An illustration from a 1904 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "Leaping into the air so as to insulate himself from the floor."

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "The big dynamo drew him to itself irresistibly."

An illustration from an 1888 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.  The caption reads: "The embalmed head.—'At the window sat a man.  It was the attitude of a man in deep thought: but he had no head."

Santa Claus is depicted as a young wood nymph in this illustration from an 1891 issue of The Strand magazine.

An illustration from an 1891 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "The children threw their marbles at the beauty."

"Beyond the End": an illustration from an 1890 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.