Restoring the Lost Sense

"The Bird-charmer": an illustration from an 1873 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.

An illustration from an 1874 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.

An illustration from an 1893 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "Strangers to the universal panic."

"The Friends": an illustration from an 1853 issue of Graham's magazine.

An illustration from an 1880 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.

An illustration from an 1898 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "I was a great cloud anchored to my body."

"There is another way": an illustration from an 1897 issue of The Ludgate Illustrated magazine.

An illustration from a 1902 issue of English Illustrated magazine.  The caption reads: "And then the thing took a certain shape and form."

An illustration from a 1902 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "Either you are the spectre, or it is supernatural."

An illustration from a 1914 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "As she wound her weight of muscle about his trunk, he found himself staring into her face."

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!"