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in the cartoon. Another artistic photographer I can think of 

 whose portraits tell like original drawings of the best class, 

 such is their unfaltering depth and breadth of effect. They 

 are simple, too, owing doubtless to the backgrounds, which 

 are designed and painted by himself. He works in an old- 

 fashioned painstaking way, but it is a way that can never go 

 out of fashion, for the best portrait painters of the best periods 

 have worked in it. He attributes his success to his training 

 as a painter. On the whole photography has a great future 

 before it. Art in photography is only just beginning to assert 

 itself. If the public would only show favour for the beautiful, 

 it would become more and more apparent and widespread. 



Though photography can never take the place of painting 

 it can aid the painter in many ways, and will ever, by its 

 rapidity and truth, be essential to the comfort and pleasure 

 of life. 



COLOURED TRANSPARENCIES. 



By H. Crisp. 



The following directions for the production of transparencies 

 (either for lantern slides or otherwise) ranging in colour from 

 a cold black to a rich deep red, at a minimum of expense and 

 trouble, will, I am sure, be of interest and perhaps profit to 

 many amateurs who, like myself, have grown tired of the 

 same unvarying tone, which is considered the correct thing 

 by nine out of every ten lantern slide makers. 



Even with commercial plates a great variation of colour 

 may be obtained with suitable exposure and development, 

 but none that I have experimented with wprk so well and 

 give such striking and beautiful results as plates prepared as 

 follows. Presuming that the reader has never attempted 

 plate making, let me just say that if strict cleanliness is 

 observed and ordinary care taken in following the directions 

 given, failure should be impossible. 



W. IB. WILTON", 



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