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603 —Toilet bottles are always useful; and here they are beautiful in addition 
—edged with a gold line which also rims the stopper and with gold labels: 
Alcohol; Listerine; Toilet Water; Peroxide; Pond's Extract; Cologne; Am¬ 
monia: Bath Salts; Bay Rum; Bicarb, of Soda; Boric Acid; Cleaning Fluid; 
Eye Wash; Face Lotion; Glycerine; Hair Tonic; Hand Lotion; Mouth Wash; 
Spirits of Camphor: 
r- Tooth Wash; Witch 
Hazel. 2%" square 
and 4 V 4 " high, they 
are only $1.00 apiece 
—$5.00 for six. 
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607 —Iridescent as a 
soap bubble, the lus¬ 
trous amber glass of 
this interesting guest 
service is exquisitely 
wrought. 12 cordial 
glasses, $4.00; 12 
cocktail glasses, 
$6.00; 12 luncheon 
goblets, $7.50. Com¬ 
plete set, $15.00. 
T HIS Fall, there are hundreds of 
new suggestions at Ovington’s 
to help you with your entertaining. 
They are attractive enough to serve as gifts or 
prizes or useful enough to serve a real pur¬ 
pose in your own home; and, no matter how 
you employ them, you find them inexpensive 
enough to purchase several at a time, or to suit 
any occasion—no matter how informal. 
608 —A very distinctive salaa 
bowl is this one of yellow lustre. 
8%" An diameter. With a 
quaint wooden fork and spoon, 
it is priced at only $3.50. 
602 —A three piece jar of double utility is 
this one. It is made to hold either siveet- 
meats or mayonnaise. In plain crystal, 
sapphire blue, rich amber, or green, it 
stands 8 V 2 " high. At only $1.50, it is a 
most unusual value—a most attractive bit 
of fine glassware and unusually useful. 
Price, $1.50. 
The Mirror of Mars 
(Concluded from page 60) 
(1757-1826) and Henry Bunbury 
(1856-1827)—a man of far higher 
education and position than either, 
though less in advance of his col¬ 
leagues in the matter of refinement 
than might have been hoped—poured 
out for tlie space of forty years an 
incredible number of caricatures, 
Gillray alone being credited with 
1500 plates, and their work, accord¬ 
ing to W. M. Thackeray, formed the 
staple contents of the portfolios in 
every country-house in England for 
two generations. Their tradition was 
carried on by their young contem¬ 
porary, George Cruikshank, who 
survived the last of them one and 
fifty years, and lived to see a change 
in the spirit of humorous art analo¬ 
gous to that which had passed over 
English fiction between 1750 and 
1800.” 
Among the early American en¬ 
gravers one finds numerous military 
prints, from such excessively rare 
examples as “The Boston Massacre” 
engraved by the patriot Paul Revere 
to the more easily obtainable prints 
by William Charles, who engraved 
in New York in 1807 and in Phila¬ 
delphia until 1822. 
Napoleonic Prints 
In France the exploits of Napoleon 
were glorified in a wonderful series of 
lithographic prints by Gericault, Horace 
Vernet, Eugene Lami, Charlet and Raf- 
fet, to name but the particular stars of a 
bright galaxy of artists who devoted 
themselves to the Napoleonic legend. 
Horace Vernet’s “Lancer” (1816) has 
been called by Beraldi “the veritable 
starting-point of painter-lithography.” 
Charlet, in his prints, succeeded in de¬ 
picting the vie intime of the soldier and 
"Revanche!” a cartoon of rare 
poetry by Adolphe Willette, a 
well-known French artist 
Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) has been 
characterized as one of the greatest if 
not the greatest of lithographers whose 
work forms “an imperishable monu¬ 
ment in glorification of Napoleon and 
the French army.” Beraldi said of 
this artist: “Raffet revolutionized the 
painting of battles. Armies have a 
soul; Raffet saw this and expressed 
it.” Thousands of lithographs by 
Honore Daumier transmit his fame to 
posterity and among them are many 
military subjects. Fortunate indeed it 
is that Daumier’s prints may still be 
had, many times, for a mere song of 
sixpence. 
Prints of Hun Wars 
The Franco-Prussian war was the 
next great period in European cari- 
A German souvenir print 
etched in the poster style by 
August Wamm in 1915 
Micbcl vole Us pcndules; von Boden, Us tableaux; 
Grelcben vide les armoires et Messieurs Us Officiers, Us caves. 
A satirical print of German 
pillaging each after his own in¬ 
terests, by Ricardo Flore, pub¬ 
lished 1914 
cature and the collector will still find 
many military prints of the time obtain¬ 
able for prices within reason. Thence 
onward the introduction of various re¬ 
productive processes, such as photo-en¬ 
graving of various sorts, reduced the 
technical interest of the earlier methods 
of graphic reproduction-etchings, aqua¬ 
tints, copperplate engravings and the 
like. However the newer reproductive 
processes immensely extended the domain 
of the caricature until its field, once the 
fly-leaf, came to be the periodical press. 
The finest of these caricatures are well 
worth collecting. Such periodicals 
as the London “Punch,” with cari¬ 
catures by the late Sir John Ten- 
niel and others, will furnish the 
collector with abundant material to 
sustain this assertion. Moreover, 
early numbers of “Punch” may be 
had now and then of booksellers, 
as they come to stock, for almost 
nothing. 
The present War for Democracy 
has occasioned thousands of mili¬ 
tary prints. Many of these are of 
the finest quality. Nearly all of 
them are intensely interesting. At 
this time they can be procured on 
every hand. I.et not the collector 
imagine they are too common to be 
interesting or worth preserving! 
Time is never too kind to occasional 
prints of this sort; a few years 
hence many of these that are now 
within reach will be unprocurable. 
Perhaps some of them will in time 
become as rare as fine Rowland¬ 
sons now are. 
