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travagantone of having the pages mounted or "inlayed" to the necessary 

 size. Sometimes special editions of limited numbers are printed on 

 large paper for illustration. If the pictures are too small they can be 

 easily and cheaply " inlayed " to the proper size. This is an operation 

 of a good deal of nicety and rather beyond the skill of amateurs, but 

 there are artisans in the large cities who do it. 



The hunt for pictures is sometimes very exciting and engrossing. 

 There are two singular things about it. One is, the moment you have 

 your book bound, some rare picture you wanted is sure to turn up. 

 The other, when you find your rare print, you are pretty certain to 

 find one or two duplicates ; such prints, like accidents and crimes, seem 

 to come in cycles. Some pictures which you would think quite com- 

 mon are difficult to get. For example it was a long time before I found 

 a satisfactory " Bluebeard," and I have not yet got a " Lady Godiva." 



There are three modes of illustration. Let me illustrate the first 

 and simplest by an example. In a memorial of Edward Everett, pub- 

 lished by the Massachusetts Historical Society, there is a passage quoted 

 from Bulwer, to the effect that the " love of mankind" may be called 

 forth " by a Socrates to-day, by a Napoleon to-morrow ; while even a 

 brigand chief, illustrious in the circle in which he moves, may com- 

 mand it no less powerfully than the generous failings of a Byron, or 

 the sublime excellencies of the greater Milton." Now for this passage 

 I had a group of three busts of Socrates, the ugliest man of ancient 

 times; a rare picture of Napoleon at the bridge of Lodi incorrectly 

 representing him on horseback; a group of five Byron s ; a Milton and 

 a portrait of Bulwer. In the same volume was a reference to Master 

 Everett's teacher in penmanship, Master Tileston, and to the neat 

 hand that the precocious lad acquired under his tuition ; to illustrate 

 this I had the original manuscript of a school composition written by 

 Everett, at the age of 11, on the " Importance of Public Education." 

 The next method is to use instead of a mere portrait, a representation 

 of some famous event or incident in the life of the man whose name is 

 mentioned. The Napoleon above-mentioned is an example of this. 

 Suppose, in the life of Titian you find an account of the Emperor 

 Charles V. picking up the great artist's brush, which he had dropped; 

 I should put in a picture of this incident. The third, and best mode, 

 is the illustration of <V<v/.s\ especially in poetry. For example, in the 

 poem " To Ennui," in Halleck's " Croakers," for the line, " The fiend 

 the fiend, is on me still!" I found a picture of an imp, sitting on the 

 breast of a man in bed with the gout. It took me years to find that. In the 

 same stanza is the line, " Like a cruel cat that sucks a child to death/' 

 I found for this a picture in a children's magazine of a cat on the breast 

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