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other purposes, are not uncommon; hut 

 m,uch difficulty, I am, informed, has been 

 found in the attempts to reproduce the 

 colours exactly. " I warn you," said Mr. 

 Senior, in a letter about my own plan, 

 " that you are likely to have immense 

 trouble over the coloured illustrations; 

 for I hqve known Halford, Marston, 

 and everybody who has gone through the 

 ordeal, driven frantic in their efforts to get 

 the colours right." Within recent months, 

 happily, there has been m,uch progress 

 in the methods of reproducing coloured 

 pictures ; and I am confident that the 

 effort in this volume will he found suc- 

 cessful. Through the influence of the 

 publishers, Messrs. A. and C. Black, who 

 have taken a kindly and very gratifying 

 interest in this hook, sparing no expense 

 of trouble or of money in its production, 

 I have had high good fortune, in the 

 difficulty to which Mr. Senior refers. 

 The artist of The Book of Flies is Mr. 

 Mortimer Menpes. Luck did not end there. 

 On the publishers suggesting that a fron- 



