XXIV INTRODUCTION. 



should flood the market. Faults may arise from poor 

 subjects, bad chemicals, foggy plates, cloudy weather, 

 careless manipulations, or any of the many drawbacks that 

 glass-slide photography is peculiarly liable to, as well as 

 from colors hastily and unskillfully applied. Slides, good, 

 bad and indifferent, made in quantity and sold to dealers 

 without remnants, can be afforded at low price. The 

 anxiety of purchasers to buy at a bargain favors the work- 

 ing off of this stock. 



To counteract this tendency the New Departure slides, 

 though involving much greater outlay than those of the 

 ordinary size, have nevertheless continued to be sold at the 

 old price. Few would be willing to give more, and yet it 

 is felt to be necessary to introduce a better class of slides, 

 in order to show the capabilities of this species of represent- 

 ation. Unskillful productions of glass slides are avoided, 

 and selections from good lots are very carefully made, and 

 then priced at a low figure. We make it for the interest 

 of purchasers to lay their commands on us, that they may 

 have reason to be satisfied if they do so, and that they may 

 be losers if they fail to do so. 



What's in a Name? 



It is found that some rousing title to a public entertain- 

 ment helps to popularize it in advance. The following is a 

 suggestive list of subjects : 



The World, from Chaos to Man. Constantinople and the Bospho- 

 The History of Joseph. rus. 

 The Pilgrim's Progress. China and the Chinese. 

 Ten Nights in a Bar-room. The Ice-bound Seas of the Frozen 

 The Drunkard's Career and End. North. 

 Life and Journeyings of St. Paul. The Emerald Isle. 

 Milton's Paradise Lost. An Evening with the Ancients- 

 Important Events in American Egypt, Greece, and Rome. 

 History. The Wonders of the Star Depths. 



