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I held out in front of him the photogravure of the beetle. As I did so he backed away from me, shrieking, trembling as with palsy. 'Take it away! take it away! he screamed. I stared at him, for some seconds, astonished into speechlessness. Then I found my tongue. 'Lessingham! It's only a picture! Are you stark mad? He persisted in his ejaculations. 'Take it away! take it away! Tear it up!
One wall had low brown bookshelves. There were two pictures: one an Around reprint of Matsys' "Portrait of Aegidius" that wise, kind, tender face; the other an admirable photogravure of Durer's "Selbstbildnis." The books were mainly to do with his favourite historical period the Later Roman Empire.
It is to be regretted that the Duerer Society published a photogravure of this latter work, which, though till then unknown, is far less interesting than the original, of which they only gave a reproduction in the text, an exhaustive history of its fortunes from the learned pen of Mr. Cambell Dodgson. DUeRER'S PORTRAITS
The works of this artist have been reproduced in engravings and etchings, and are well known in black and white. Her water-colors, too, have been published in photogravure. Miss Brownscombe exhibits at many American exhibitions and has had her work accepted at the Royal Academy, London.
The two by Professor Sanders, dealing with four very early biblical manuscripts, which include Deuteronomy and Joshua, the Psalms, the four Gospels, and fragments of the Epistle of Paul, aroused worldwide interest among scholars when they appeared, particularly as they were accompanied by sumptuous volumes of photogravure fac-similes prepared by Mr.
By Clara Erskine Clement, author of "A Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art," "The Queen of the Adriatic," etc. Handsomely illustrated with twenty full-page plates in photogravure from photographs of historic scenes in and around Naples. Small 8vo, handsomely bound in extra cloth, with handsome cover design, gilt top, slip cover, in a neat cloth case. $3.00. Or, Venice, Mediæval and Modern.
The pictures included a chromo, depicting an impossible castle set in an equally impossible landscape, a print or two of race horses, a lithograph of a poker game in supposably high life, and a photogravure of a painting familiar to the habitues of a great metropolitan hotel, popularly fancied in the country to be daring in the extreme.
In the photogravure presented Chief Timbo holds a long steel-headed spear, girdled with varicoloured beads, ornamented with great tufts of eagle feathers, and at the end of its ten feet of length bearing a picturesque plume. This staff descended to Timbo from Quanah Parker, once the leading chief of the Comanches.
And among the letters he found on his table when he returned, was one from Sherwood, which contained only these words: "Great opportunity in view. Our fortunes are made!" When Franks was gone, Warburton took up The Art World, which his friend had left, and glanced again at the photogravure of "Sanctuary."
To most of the present generation the book will possess all the charm of novelty. Estes & Lauriat, Publishers, Boston. Italian Cities Illustrated ROME OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY: The Pagan Centuries. By John Dennie. New holiday edition. Illustrated with maps, plans, and twenty full-page plates, reproducing, in photogravure, photographs of the most important points of interest.
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