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and after a number of printings, varying with the tints and shades 
required in the picture to be produced, a perfect work is the result. 
Good copies of oil and water-colour paintings may thus be 
obtained. Accuracy is required in the “ registering ” or fixing 
of the sheets and skill, in regulating the working of the colours. 
As one colour succeeds another on the paper, the picture gradu- 
ally assumes its finished shape. (This was illustrated by 
specimens of colour-printing lent by Messrs. Taylor Bros. of 
Leeds.) 
Around the room were placed many specimens of lithographic 
work, in various phases of execution. Some particularly fine 
work was sent by Messrs. Blades, Hast & Blades, and Messrs. 
Unwin Bros. of London. 
READINGS BY MEMBERS. 
March 11th, 1884. Director; W. LEWIS GRANT. 
Mr. Alderman Greenwood was prevented by the state of his 
health from giving the paper allotted to this Evening, ‘ Our 
Trade past, present, and future.” ‘‘ Readings by Members ” was 
substituted. 
The following Programme was gone through :—W. L. Grant : 
«Lawn Tennis, Limited” (4. A. Dowty). Song: ‘To Anthea” 
(Hatton) §. Harwood, M.B. R. T. Sutcliffe: ‘‘The Women 
of Mumbles’ Head” (Clement Scott). T. Lloyd: ‘Internal 
Communication—An Unfortunate Inventor’ (Max Adeler). 
Pianoforte Solo: Melody: (Stephen Heller) ‘ L’appassionata”’ 
(Bennett) Miss Simpson. W. L. Grant: “ Absalom” (Nathaniel 
P. Willis). A. Lancaster: ‘‘ The Revenge” (Tennyson). Song: 
“Nevermore” (Zito Mattei) 8. Harwood, M.B._R. T. Sutcliffe: 
«The Story of a Picture’? (B.H.) J.L.Ward, M.A.: ‘ Horatio 
Sparkins’’ (Dickens). Pianoforte Solo: ‘“ Elf-Land Gavotte” 
(Barnett) Miss Simpson. 
‘*A MODERN EPIC.” 
By the Rev. A. H. FINN, March 18th, 1884. 
The epic, said the lecturer, is to literature what history is to 
prose. Indeed the epic usually deals with historical or traditional 
subjects, or with fiction in the historical form. Hence arises the 
special form and character of epic poetry. Its narrative and 
realistic nature requires that the subject treated of should be of 
