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Excerpt from The Seven Wonders of the World: With Their Associations in Art and History Although the popularity of the present volume has given the publishers little reason to be dissatisfied, still it has been thought advisable to re-model the whole, and not only to make many corrections in the style of diction, but to introduce numerous additional illustrations from the best and most recent sources. The work may, indeed, be almost looked upon as a new publication, and, it is hoped, as a not unuseful contribution to the manuals of art which are so essential in teaching the first rules of correct taste, and in enabling us to distinguish accurately between the styles adopted at different times, and by different nations. It is much, however, to be regretted, that our real information as to these "seven wonders," which have, probably from a taste for the mysticism of the number seven, been set forth by the concurrent voice of history as the specimens, par excellence, of what the ancients could achieve, should be so limited as it is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.