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children will look back to, and when they are grumbling, as they 
certainly will grumble, at the bad weather of their own day, they 
will speak with regret of the lovely old-fashioned summer they 
remember when they were young ; a year to be remembered and 
to be thankful for. 
Bath and Early Lithography. By EMANUEL GREEN, F.S.A. 
(Read January 10th, 1894.) 
The process known to us as Lithography, the art of drawing on 
stone, was early described as based on the dislike which water has 
for grease and the affinity which calcareous stones have both for 
water and grease or greasy substances. As with other important 
-inventions it was discovered by accident by one Aloysius Senefelder, 
who born at Prague the son of an actor in the Munich theatre 
was destined for the law, but all cash supplies being stopped by 
the death of his father he was obliged to leave his studies and in 
turn joined the theatre as a singer inthe chorus. After enduring 
the usual poverty here he left this to try his fortune with his pen. 
This also proved a failure, but during this time he was brought 
into contact with the printing press and learned something thereby. 
Especially was he bitten with the desire for some form of cheap 
reproduction, but having no means to buy a press he made many 
experiments in engraving ; thus it happened that his attention 
was directed to a stone he had purchased on which to grind some 
colours, it occurring to him that by writing on it backwards and 
biting in with aqua fortis he could print by pressure with but 
little trouble and multiply at no cost. The attempt was so far 
encouraging that he bought a stronger or thicker stone, and having 
settled on the quality or sort of ink to be used he was preparing 
this stone for an etching when his mother entered his workroom 
and desired him to write a list for the laundress who was waiting. 
