December, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS xvi! 
plishment of individual artists is considered 
primarily in its relation to general move- 
ments; the domain of the biographical dic- 
tionary is not invaded. Such a connected 
account of achievement in a wide range of 
possibilities carries us from the earliest 
products of these arts, with a predominant 
historical interest, to the most recent efforts 
at original expression, as we find it in the 
use of etching, wood-engraving, and lithog- 
raphy as painter arts. The appeal on both 
antiquarian and aesthetic grounds is there- 
fore evident. 
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