PRINCIPLES OF COLOR 



AND 



GENEEAL REMARKS. 



^HE popular nomenclature of colors has of late years, 

 ~L especially since the introduction of aniline dyes and 

 pigments, become involved in almost chaotic confusion 

 through the coinage of a multitude of new names, many 

 of them synonymous, and still more of them vague or 

 variable in their meaning. These new names are far too 

 numerous to be of any practical utility, even were each 

 one identifiable with a particular fixed tint. Many of 

 them are invented at the caprice of the dyer or manu- 

 facturer of fabrics, and are as capricious in their meaning 

 as in their origin ; among them being such fanciful names 

 as " Zulu," " Crushed Strawberry," " Baby Blue," " Wood- 

 bine-berry," ff Night Green," etc., besides such nonsensical 

 names as " Ashes of Eoses" and " Elephant's Breath." An 

 inspection of the sample-books of manufacturers of various 

 fancy goods (such as embroidery silks and crewels) is 

 sufficient to show the absolute want of system or classi- 

 fication which prevails, thus rendering these names pecul- 

 iarly unavailable for the purposes of science, where absolute 







