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      There ' s lots of things to be done hereabouts in the way of getting a livibut as a young

      gentleman . ' It is much the same nowadays , we believe . Harry Treverton ngs , however , had a brave heart and was not ashamed to work . The story of his subsequent adventurous

      career is full of thrilling incidents , until the hero , like many another , is settled and done

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      IIU | fea ' Eh ( b || HOSE book who illustration love books which will continue be delig throug hted with h several Mr . Hanierton numbers ' of s charming The Port dialogues folio . In on

      | lid tfgtCT K 3 UI [ Conversation S > i I I -W . is , encountered I I 1 the I t rivalry 1 between 1 I Art At and Literature T • • . We TTT quote ¦ the -. beginning , which , we venture to affirm , supplies a key to the whole discussion :

      temptuousl * r ' y ( opening ) . Another a volume illustrated on the edition table , of and a popular stiutUng poet it at ! once I wonder conhe tolerates these things .

      edition * Artist is a . confirmation Perhaps he of feels his rather fame . flat Publishers tered . At do any not rate select , an illustrated unknown

      men Poet for illustration . That is . one of the numerous advantages of obscurity . * Critic . When you are dead you will probably be illustrated also .

      some and appear astonishing amongst ly showy the Christmas binding books . Add , with to

      advertisements tions less tnis tne typograp by gilt the edges h first y have , and , artists the it the . ' toned of " exquisite the paper day , , the " illustra as fault the - -

      And so on . Let the reader

      intereste ' The d Portfolio in books ' and get

      peruse ton ' s remarks Mr . Hamer ; they —^

      -are sound discursive in argument , ,

      and , from an artist ' s i point of viewfree

      from bias . Besides , the question of Art

      ject there / of ari * utilit the y 9 in

      -< book illustration , and this we find

      most ingeniously argued ^ . The subj — — — ^ ect , _

      to the outer mind is so intensely

      mundane that there may appear little — in —— it ; j

      but j - jl -the philosoph y of book illustration

      is is the as p r rono > hilosoDhv unced as of

      volume Art in pi form gments . This or stone part 1 or of metaL i The Portfolio We should ? is , h like owever to see , in Mr teres . Hamerton ting only ' to s work a limited J ^ produ section M ced * V in of the readers of the periodicalmanof whomnaturalllook the illustrations—the

      , y , y upon work superb ^ M M . etchings Readers a ^ h , ^* of ori this n g inal calibre drawings ^^^ _> will , lose and themselves other adornments in the _ interest —as the of irresistible other articles _ charm written of the by

      the ' Earlier distinguished English editor Water , -colour and in such Painters contributions , ' the as descr Mr . ip Cosmo tions and Monkhouse criticisms ' s account by Mr . of F . the G ^ . Stephens ¦ Mr . A . H . PalmerProfessor # fc Church and others ¦» ¦¦• While looking over the ¦¦ pages

      national of the J— — volume art , j , for ™ ~~ ^^ one in no ¦ w cannot " ~ - publication - " -- ^ >^ — * » - * i' . ^^ , w hel . !»¦ p » -- » F ^ fc being of - ^^ r ~^ « i * ^ its - ^^ ^ fc " » l struck •»« ind . ^»^ . ^^ ^ kjfc is , a b British ^ r ** y » ^*^ a ^—^ feeling * # *» ^^ art f ^* . more of ^ national A , A trul J * ^ - ^ Jk y ^^ > - and ^ * * fc ¦*• sympath ^ ¦¦ ka more ^ ^^ * ^^ ¦*• thoroug y ¦ * towards " ^^ B ^ ^ " ^ hl /^ i y

      represented Ley — / land ^^^— — — ' s — article — , or 1— m on o re the win dili * gentl Seventeenth ¦ » y encouraged rf i ¦« jki «/ Century ^^ Vir ^ h / . The Halls ¦ Mavv ' illustration >* M of West in Yorkshire bur pages ' is * from The p >» Portfolio # « Mr % ¦ . Joh i —* n '

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      , ! , Xtolly The ana author Xiaisy of * , Cri a b fresh and Fl breezy y' has story done of well Eng in lish the new country volume -house , The life Holiday . The ' two Pranks young of ^ aau ! ¦ , ,, , , . , a , _—__— ,,., _ ,,- ^ j

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1888, page 1546, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121888/page/52/