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album, each particular portrait calling up a fresh history, we may 
exclaim with joy, “Oh, memory, fond memory, when all things 
fade we fly to thee!” The preservation and veneration of our 
photographic albums is one of the best means of keeping up a 
wholesome state of mind in young people living away from their 
friends. It has indirectly a moral action, for the presence of good 
is generally productive of good, and we could not or ought not to 
have the portraits of persons constantly before us, of whose virtues 
we are assured, without becoming unconsciously possessed in part 
_of those virtues ; thus portraits are continually exerting over us & 
powerful, though silent influence. 
_One of the first requirements in many leading branche 
of life is a knowledge of drawing. The study of this is 
long and requires certain aptitudes. All students have not 
the means of purchasing that great desideratum “a voyage 
through the more classical or artistic countries.” "Tis true that 
sometimes a student gains a prize of money, enabling him to make 
the tour of Italy or Greece, but many have run the race, and only 
one perhaps has gained the prize. Here then comes photography 
o the aid of unsuccessful competitors. They cannot go to those 
places, but those places by photography are brought to them in all 
their richness. aintings, sculptures, rare collections of art 
treasures—all are within their reach. Those marvels of art of the 
hodern artists says it must not only become an object of observ- 
ation, but of study to great painters ; more particularly then ought 
1b e one for art students. We must not forget that photo- 
‘ox Talbot, Tessié de Mothey, the valuable processes of 
oodbury, Albert, Photogravure, Photo-lithography, and all the 
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