| CGraphotyfpe. Bey: 
great advantages it possesses in the illustration of scientific 
works. 
Despite the great artistic value of this process, its ex- 
treme rapidity, certainty, and economy, efforts are con- 
tinually made either to suppress or ignore it, and numerous 
objections are commonly urged against its more general 
adoption, which will neither bear thinking about, nor in any 
way seriously retard its ultimate success. Amongst these 
objections is that of its never reproducing the artist’s fine 
lines. When we consider that the artist’s lines could not 
by any possibility be thickened at any stage of the pro- 
cess, this objection seems a very weak one; but when 
specimen prints are placed before us in which the very 
finest lines appear, each clearly and sharply defined, it 
fades out of sight. Strangely contradictory in this direc- 
tion is another objection not less frequently repeated—viz., 
that the lines given by the process are invariably too fine, 
or “scratchy,” as such a defect is technically termed. When 
we add that the process has reproduced the bold, rich 
effects of Gustave Doré’s drawings, it will be seen that this 
objection also falls to the ground. But without entering 
upon all the various statements brought forward, either in 
a spirit of partizanship, or from interested motives, we may 
simply state that we have seen—as any of our readers 
interested in the matter may also see by visiting the 
company’s premises in Garrick Street, Covent Garden— 
drawings of the most varied kind and character, repro- 
duced and printed with effects conclusively demonstrative 
of the practical value and extreme usefulness of the 
process. 
That the art will be as serviceable towards cheap good 
illustration, is as evident as that cheap printing has pro- 
duced good and equally cheap literature. We are glad to 
give encouragement to so young, yet so promising, an art, 
feeling assured that as it grows in years it will increase in 
usefulness. 
