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shall feel glad to have given our readers an 

 impulse in the right direction, and can assure 

 them that by closely following the rules here 

 given, success will certainly reward their efforts. 

 Those whom repeated failures may have so far 

 discouraged as to induce them to abandon the 

 pursuit, will be stimulated to renew their 

 interesting labors. Others, whose entire igno- 

 rance of the process may have withheld them 

 from even beginning, will be induced to make 

 a trial. The probability is, that among the 

 aspirants thus stimulated to enter the field, 

 some superior genius will be found, at whose 

 animating touch this beautiful art will receive 

 a brilliancy of development surpassing all that 

 could have been imagined by those who pio- 

 neered it into public notice. 



