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apple-tree and not of a lady." Similar remarks might be made on 

 seeing many photographs. It is a . cardinal error in their case, that 

 they give a stronger tone to accessories than to essentials. They pre- 

 sent a conglomerate of furniture, and it is only after careful inspection 

 that a man is detected sticking among it, whose portrait is to form 

 the picture. In another case a quilted white blouse is seen, and it is 

 only after some time that a girl's head is perceived rising above it. A 

 park is seen in a landscape, with fountains and other adornments, and 

 it is only after some time that a black coat is seen confounded with an 

 equally dark bush. 



It may, perhaps, excite surprise that the writer ascribes greater 

 truth to painting than to photography, which is generally regarded 

 as the truest of all methods of producing pictures. It must be self- 

 evident that the remark has only been made in connection with works 

 of the first masters. One of the great services of photography is that 

 it has rendered impossible those daubs of inferior artists formerly 

 offered for sale in every street. But the perfect picture of the photog- 

 rapher is not self-created. He must test, weigh, consider, and re- 

 move the difficulties which oppose the production of a true picture. If 

 his picture is to be true, he must take care that the characteristic is 

 made prominent and the accessories subordinate. The non-sensitive 

 plate of iodide of silver cannot do this. It receives the impression of 

 all that it has before it, according to unchangeable laws. The pho- 

 togi*apher attains this end, on the one hand, by appropriate grouping 

 of the original ; on the other, by a proper treatment of the negative. 

 I admit that to do this he must also be able to detect what is charac- 

 teristic and what accessory in his original. 



Therefore, whoever wishes to undertake any photographic produc- 

 tion must first become familiar with the object that he wishes to take, 

 that he may know what he has to do. The photographer will not, 

 indeed, be able to control his matter, like the painter, for the disincli- 

 nation of models and the optico-chemical difficulties often frustrate 

 his best endeavors, and hence there must always be a difference be- 

 tween photography and a work of art. This difference may be briefly 

 summed up by saying that photography gives a more faithful picture 

 of the form, and art a more faithful picture of the character. 



MANUFACTURE AND CONVEYANCE OF GUNPOWDER. 



By A. HILLIARD ATTERIDGE. 



A LITTLE before five o'clock on the morning of the 2d of 

 last October, a train of four barges was being towed by a 

 steamer along the Regent's Canal, in the northwestern distract of 

 London. The second of these barges was laden with a miscellaneous 



