This wonderful lantern was the work of Robert de Rhodes, who lived in the fifteenth century.

Reproduction in the camera, using daylight to illuminate the negative, enables the operator to reduce or enlarge in every direction, but the lantern is a winter instrument, and comes in for demand and use during the short days.

" "The lantern is not the light.

De stable was ober dar toward de right, whar dat lantern was dodgin' 'round.

The iron lantern and other smithwork were by Lorenzo the Magnificent's sardonic friend, "Il Caparro," of the Sign of the Burning Books, of whom I wrote in the chapter on the Medici palace.

Some ways he will not go, and some he dares not; either there are bugs, or he feigneth them; every lantern is a ghost, and every noise is of chains.

The lantern was rather a cinematographic contrivance.