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direction. If you have a preponderance of vertical lines in your com- 

 position, let the figures pose in such a way as shall cut them obliquely; 



should horizontal hnes be in excess, connect them with those of perpen- 

 dicular tendency (Figs. 13 and 14). 

 The "relief" which figures ailord in your pictures must receive some 



consideration ; and, perhaps, in no instance will it be more necessary to 

 remember what tones certain colours take when reduced to black and 

 white. If this is overlooked, it will be found, after much care and trouble 

 have been expended on their arrangement, you will get no effect, owing to 



