A page from the Dresden codex, Maya manuscript Size:S: 60 x 45cm An advertising page in Harper's

An advertising page in Harper's Bazar

with a water spout indicating the position of the blowhole

Volume 7 (London

Canadian actor-manager and dramatist

rejects a plea for help from Turkey

A page from the Dresden codex, Maya manuscript Size:S: 60 x 45cm An advertising page in Harper'sA page from the Dresden Maya Manuscript, 1901. The Dresden Codex is held in the Schsische Landesbibliothek, the state library in Dresden, Germany. It is the finest surviving example of works of Mayan literature written on paper made from bark. Many existed at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America but the vast majority were destroyed by the Spaniards. A print from The World's History, A Survey of Man's Record, by Dr HF Helmolt,