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    Books Received : — From 4 l ^ te 4 k ^^ Svv ^ Messrs i ^^ w Ht ^^ B MriF . V Georg ^ MpV ^ v ^^ ^ B JWfc e ^^ Bell ^¦^ ^^ ^ " ^ " & ^^^ " ^ Sons ^^ ^^ ^^™ ^ v . v —' Wood - ¦ - ^ ¦»¦ -w

    LintoD Engraving . With : a Manual Bartolozzi of exhibition Instruction s and / , by sundry W . J . I other indications of a desire to raise the engraver ' s

    art subject to its worth rightful y of p stud lace y , in a public book which estimation avows , as its a aim to be * to help towards forming a school of

    I attract an artist artist -engravers general of acknowled / attention written ged by . reputation When one who we , is is add likel himself that y to

    only and that 500 cop it is ies profusel of the y volume illustrated have , we been shall printed have , I said enough to show that all who are interested

    in engraving , whether as engravers or collectors , Linton will do in well his to prefatory place it note on tells their us shelves that . he Mr has .

    not hesitated to assert as absolutely as possible the true principles of art , and to criticise unsparingly whatever he finds to be antagonistic to

    these who can princ accept iples the ; and writer thi ' s s jud , of gment course , will , with increase those rather than diminish the value of the book . He

    deals first with engraving in relief and the early history of wood engraving , and then describes in clear terms the difference between cutting and

    engraving , and the tools required by the engraver . Chapters on drawing on wood for engraving , on the method of the engraver , on the things which

    he has to avoid and on his true aims , follow , and lastly we have an interesting criticism on the use and ^¦ v ^ i ^^* v ^ abase ^ v ^^ * f « w ^ ^ m of ^^ ^ photograp w >* ^^ ^^ ^* ^^ 9 ^ % ^^^ W ^ hy ^** W ^ and ¦¦^ hi ^ ii ^ on ^^ m ^ what ^ v ^^ m ^^ *^ constitutes ^^ ^^ * " * " ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^~

    an artist . The gist of Mr . Linton ' s views on the photographer ' s art is to be found in his opening sentencewhen he admits that while the use of

    photograp , hy as an adjunct to art has been very great , it cannot take the place of art , and art cannot ba the mere imitation of a photograph .

    substitute He denies for that drawing photograp on wood hy , is and an he adequate answers seriatim the arguments advanced by those who

    declare that we owe the improved character of out wood-engraving more to the use of photography as a substitute for drawing on wood than to any

    other cause . Mr . Linton is hard on the artcritics , and the incisiveness of his own style of criticism may — - — ^ _ be . —^ — gathered ^^^ 7 — _ - from r _ the ^ - — sentence in

    which he ridicules the idea that an engraver can gain anything from having a drawing constantly before having him the in drawing the guise its of -If a . photograp ' Can anyone h instea / d our ~^^ r- of

    I author — ¦ can ~— — ^ -m gain asks ~ — T , an " ~ ~^ ' ^^ except w " ^ v ^^ p insp ^^ ^ ^ W ^^ H iration ^» ¦ an ^^ ^^ art ^^ ^ " -cr or i tic ^ p * " ^^^¦ ^ " - ^ , provocation ^^ v suppose ^« ^^ ™ ^^ ^^ ^^ - ^^ ^ m that to ^^ - ^ ^^ excellence" through having the photograph

    instead of the original drawing given to me to engrave from ; that my position as interpreter or translator will be in any way " elevated" or that

    the mechanical aspect of my function ( , whatever that may mean ) will be concealed by the substitution of the photographand I be so brought into

    a more intimate and sympathetic , relation with the artist ? ' Mr . Linton quotes the evidence of Mr . Anthonyof BostonU . S . A .. and of some of

    the leading , engravers of , New York , in support of his view that not only do engravers dislike to work from photographs , but their use is ruinous

    to the eyes , and he closes his chapter—one of the most acute in the book—witli this sentence : * The end of this—engraving from the photograph

    —can only be imbecility in engraving , and then the substitution of some mechanical process for the mechanical weakness of the hand . For tho

    mechanic-engraver the days of engraving are ' numbered . Only the artist-engraver ,, while he I upholds the dignitycnn assure the future of

    £ /" xl . engraving . Beware , of photography I * 3 tr .

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    Linton ' s chapter ' On what constitutes an Artist " appeals and engravers alike to pro and fessional he adds and a amateur valuable —— -m « v paint biblio ers

    graphy ^^ of works , likely to be of use ' to ^^ students ^ s ^^ W ALJI . Ifl ^ - Fro ITiUlU m . Messrs 4 XJLO 0 SXB . . William W iUWIU Blackwood JJiaUJ . WUOa & < Z Sons OOH 8 —

    Blackwood ' s Educational Series : The Fiist and for lor Second Standard children Readers in in / Two reading- booka

    illustrate young youne d : cnnaren and supplied printea printed with large large spelling type type . , admirabl admimM lessons in * y , which the — syllables are clearl — " ~ —y marked «&\* vi and

    really accentuated pretty with p ictures the correct with which pronunciat ^ the * - little ** ion . . book Th ULJ \ « s abound will make it

    the teacher to win favour comparativel for the lessons y easy work . for From The Religious Tract Society . — « Life l

    an < Times Reformation of John . " ' "Wycliffe This l , iterary the Morning contribution Star of to the the celebration of the

    Wycliffe quincentenary , which is second second to be editi editi commenced of oi book dook in ! London which wnicn next week , is n

    known and on on may a a be accepted as is is a already alreadv satisfactory veil vtt \\ sketch of tho reformer and his life-work . It is

    illustrated with a portrait of Wycliffe and other sketches . From Messrs . Griffith & Farran . — Manners and I

    Speech , being a Selection from Lord Chesterfields Letters to his Son . ' This budget of 1 he worMfamous maxims contains some of the Earl ' s wise

    knowled sayings ge on , business the world , absence and society of mind , learning , eloquence and and styleconversation - - _____ company _ _ good and badj

    — — * , — , — — , j « . j — — — —' , friends and acquaintance , and vanity . With its this parchment little shilling cover and book handsomel will form y printed a very usefu pages l i j

    volume lace in for the stud table and , and schoolroom it ought . to The hare world a ; pevery y may of Lord — — possibl Chesterfield - ^_— y be growing -- _ is very wiser ¦ far , but from the beiDg wisdom M oat | ; I

    of — - ^_ - date . - - ~ - - ^ J — - — ^^^ i From the same . —Part 6 of ' Sermons for tb Church's Year / containing discourses bArcfc-

    y , deacon Mant , Bishop Hare , Jacobson Dr . Irons , , Mr Bishop . Page Kaye Koberr , Bishop sf an < l I I

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1884, page 472, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051884/page/8/