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The symbolism of colour

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The text surveys traditional and esoteric meanings attached to colours, arguing that hues function as symbols and vibratory forces linked to emotion, music, and the natural world. It treats individual colours in turn—red, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, black, brown and grey—and considers the rainbow, tracing cultural lore, gem and talismanic uses, and artistic and poetic responses. Practical topics include medical and agricultural applications of coloured rays, meteorological colour signs, chromatics of the sky, and the proposed correspondence between colour and sound. Appendices outline schools of colour, planetary colours, and experiments on plant growth under coloured light.

RIDER’S PUBLICATIONS.


THE NEW SCIENCE OF COLOUR. By Beatrice Irwin. Crown 8vo, cloth, 144 pp., with coloured frontispiece, 3s. 6d. net.

Contents.—Introduction—Colour-Science—The Necessity for a Colour-Theatre and College—Colour and Decoration—Colour and Evolution—Modern Science and Colour—Colour as a Medium of Expression—Colour Systems—The Development of Colour Sense—Therapeutic Powers of Colour—Colour Stimuli and Colour Exercises—The Dawn of the Colour Age.

“A thoughtful, interesting, and well reasoned, if sometimes fantastic-seeming little treatise, on a subject concerning which too little is yet known, and which opens up promising vistas of inquiry.”—Scotsman.

THE ROSE IMMORTAL. By A. Bothwell Gosse, Author of “The Knights Templars,” “The Civilization of the Ancient Egyptians,” etc. Parchment, 5½ × 4½, 64 pp., 1s. 6d. net.

Contents.—The Path—The Goal—The Red Rose of Sorrow—The White Rose of Joy—The Golden Rose of Union—The Little Black Rose of Silence.

“Within the narrow compass of these few pages it has been the aim of the author to trace the evolution of this beautiful symbol among the different faiths of mankind, and to show how its varying interpretation has served to bring out the meaning underlying the mysticism of all religions.”—From the Foreword by Ralph Shirley.

PROBLEMS OF THE BORDERLAND. An explanatory rendering of the introductory chapters of “The Book of the Elements.” By J. Herbert Slater, Author of “Engravings and their Value,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, viii. + 286 pp., 3s. 6d. net.

“Describes many of these First Steps to a Wider Knowledge which to-day are interesting those least imaginative of men, the Churchman and the Scientist.”—The Tatler.

THE OPEN VISION. A Study of Psychic Phenomena. By Horatio W. Dresser, Ph.D., Author of “The Spirit of The New Thought,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 5s. net.

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