A New Triumph In Photography

1 hotogr.ip'uy has aohiaved a new triumph in Eiland. t is veil kno-.vn that drawing on woed f' eograviog ruquires peculiar skill and tact, whioh eau ooJy be uuquired nl'tor loog pructiue. tfincu woed eogravmg has booome tiio fdvoritü modo of book illus truiion, drawioga from araioeai arttsls uro nuioh in roquect. Uut it bappeas that few pointers can uoceeafolly plaoe their dosigna oé the wood. GoDsequently another, aud in mort j oa '■■■. an ioferior artist, hua to bo '■ ployed to triunfar thu original drawing to thu grout losa oí thu vigor and delicucy of touch peculiar to the paiütui' - as ;q all tran-iitions there must be ionio sucriiice ;;i' thu tlUthfulnesa oí' tha original. JlJut hare photography klndly utüps in lo our aflaistaooe. By j an ingiuioiiM prooej, perfoeted iy Mr. i Tbonaaa Bolton, the wood-engravor, I the artist'.s drawing niay bu Iransferred ' to tho wood iiiack with nsicroacoj ie 1 suracy and üdslity. This result has long büdii a desiderátum, an ■! frequentiy ttempted, but ia otar now carritd. to euccöosful issue. It roquircd ■ oombioatioo of the practical knowledge of tho wood eogtvw with thu skill of tho photographer; aad tbesa happily have met in the persen of Mr. Boltonf to whom artists and publishers must tocl uüdur groat obliijatioii, inasmuch : as the oiia can now havo bis most 1 plex deeigtfs traDsferred to the woud as fuitbiuDy as be could draw tb m hirnsoll'; whilo tho adnuitae to the publisher consists in his being ablc now to obtain drawiega od wood at a ! paratively trifiiog oost, tima rendering inany works of art availablo whicti bitherto have, from their otaploxity, been debarred from use. - hondón Ártin uu. (jiF Happiaess is preraised not to ' I the groat but to the good. y -