ABSTRACT
Improved stereoscope is a novel instrument, at once delightful and extraordinary, and which gives people representations of natural images with a truth perfectly startling, is yet capable of many obvious improvements, which it is no doubt destined to receive after the first ebullition of surprise at the discovery has abated. From originality as an optical toy, it may end in being a useful scientific adjunct to Art, and be always a pleasing addition to the attractions of a drawing-room. By its aid people may travel with rigid truthfulness over foreign cities, and again examine the cathedrals and public buildings they have admired abroad, while comfortably seated by a winter’s fire-side at home, and all this by gazing on the reflex they have themselves cast on the paper before them. A portable statue-gallery may also be obtained and enjoyed; or the resemblance of personal friends so truthfully rendered, that they seem about to speak.
