Nature and Art, December 1, 18C6.] 
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sions might certainly have been drawn. We are 
glad to illustrate our pages with one from the ac- 
complished pencil of Mr. John Gilbert, who, after a 
long and successful career as a designer on wood, 
lends the weight of his authority most unequivo- 
cally to the new material. The list of contributing 
artists to a new edition of Watts’s “Divine and 
Moral Songs ” comprises the names of Holman 
Hunt, Cave Thomas, Du Maurier, Hablot Browne, 
had the Graphotype existed in his young days, he 
would now have been riding “ in a coach and six, 
instead of in an omnibus.” Still, notwithstanding 
the satisfactory results, and the strong body of ad- 
herents which the cause has attained, some few years 
may elapse before the school of competent draughts- 
men now in course of formation has developed fully 
the capabilities of the art for booh illustration. Time, 
again, and probably tire work of many an ingenious 
Marcus Stone, T. Morten, J. D. Watson, H. 
Anelay, . Florence Claxton, C. Green, M. E. 
Edwards, and D. C. Hitchcock. 
Mr. Noel Humphreys and Mr. Fitzcook, both 
practical men, were bold enough severally to declare 
before the Society of Arts, that properly trained 
artists would find no difficulty in drawing the finest 
lines on chalk surface with a brush as fine as is 
now habitually used upon smooth stone by litho- 
graphers, and that those who apprehended difficulty, 
only did so because they had not tried. The 
amiable George Cruiksliank, again, thought that 
brain, will show how best to adapt it to the uses of 
the potter, the embosser, the pattern-maker, the 
calico-printer, and the thousand other artificers who 
have an interest in the cheap and expeditious 
multiplication .of artistic designs. 
Mr. Holman Hunt himself was, we apprehend, to 
a certain extent, of our opinion, when he wrote the 
following passage, no less valuable to the invention 
as a testimonial in its favour than as a caution 
against going too fast : — 
“ I regard the process of drawing for book illustrations, 
called Graphotype, with which ‘ Watts’s Hymns ’ have 
