illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe [Fr.], tailpiece.

But it was a magnanimous godship; and, after a moment's leaning back with closed eyes, to draw in all the sweet incense, how nobly would he act, in imaginative vignette, the King Cophetua to this poor suppliant of love; with what a generous waiving of his powerand with what a grace!did he see himself raising her from her knees, and seating her at his right hand.

This idea clung to his mind, and we find in dynastic times, in the vignette representing the rising sun, that the apes, who are said to be the transformed openers of the portals of heaven, form a veritable company of the gods, and at the same time one of the most striking features of the scene.

Before we pass to the consideration of the manner in which the judgment is depicted upon the finest examples of the illustrated papyri, reference must be made to an interesting vignette in the papyri of Nebseni [Footnote: British Museum, No. 9900.]

In the great illustrated papyri, in which, the Judgment Scene is given in full, it will be noticed that it comes at the beginning of the work, and that it is preceded by hymns and by a vignette.

Thus, in the Papyrus of Ani, [Footnote: British Museum, No. 10,470.] we have a hymn to R[=a] followed by a vignette representing the sunrise, and a hymn to Osiris; and in the Papyrus of Hunefer, [Footnote 2: British Museum, No. 9901.]

Her adventure had fallen flat, she felt no pleasure in the idea of painting a vivid word-vignette for the people at home.

I hear frequent complaints of this want of purity in the whites, especially in vignetted enlargements, and I believe that this almost always arises from one or other of the two following causes: First.

We should not forget the vignette lithographs to the little songs, which are beautifully executed by Hullmandel.

In early life Bewick cut a vignette for the Newcastle newspaper, from which it is calculated that more than nine hundred thousand impressions have been worked off; yet the block is still in use, and not perceptibly impaired.

It was as real while it lasted as any material object could have been, though it was a head without a body, like one of the vignetted portraits which used to be so fashionable in my early days.

" To this note was appended a pen-and-ink vignette by Lady Seymour representing the three "little Shuckburghs," with large heads and cauliflower wigs, sitting at a round table and voraciously scrambling for mutton chops dressed by Mary Stedman, who was seen looking on with supreme satisfaction, while Lady Shuckburgh appeared in the distance in evident dismay.

Lithographed stock certificate with stub, "lady" vignette.

R69963, 13Nov50, Goes Lithographing Co. (PCW) LITHOGRAPHED STOCK CERTIFICATE AND STUB, eagle vignette, brown border.

R69959, 13Nov50, Goes Lithographing Co. (PCW) LITHOGRAPHED STOCK CERTIFICATE WITH STUB, "lady" vignette, green border on face and back.

The vandals have been at work there; nearly all the music books have pages torn out, pieces cut out wherever there was an illuminated letter, a vignette or anything pretty.

AT LAST CHAPTER XIVCONCLUSION ILLUSTRATIONS BULLYING ERIC Vignette on title-page SMOKING ON THE ROCK OUT OF THE WINDOW ERIC AND VERNON HIDING ERIC ESCAPING FROM THE SHIP Frontispiece ERIC:

At times thrilled by no perceptible wind, rather by the pulse of the sun's rays, the froth shook and parted; and then behold, deep in the crevasses vignetted and shining, an acre or two of the earth of man's business and frettilled slopes of the Lothians, ships dotted on the Firth, the capital like a hive that some child had smokedthe ear of fancy could almost hear it buzzing.

The picturesque vignette includes the church and parsonage.

So far from the line of the tree when it is bare appearing harsh and severe, it is luxuriantly indefinable to an unusual degree; the fringe of the forest melts away like a vignette.

As an example of the difference in both outline and detail which took place in design, let the reader notice the form of the Louis Quatorze commode vignetted for the initial letter of this chapter, and then turn to the lighter and more fanciful cabinets of somewhat similar shape which will be found illustrated in the "Louis Quinze" section which follows this.

.' Of a sudden, while they sang and while the children gazed, the fog to northward heaved and parted, pierced by a shaft of the sinking sun, and there in a clear hollow lay landlay an Island vignetted in the fog, with the light on its cliffs and green slopesan Island, resting like a shield on the milky sea.

Lo! when they came to the ledge above the fall, Holmness was visible, vignetted in a gap of the lingering fog, and standing so clear against the level sunset that its rocky ledges, tipped here and there with flame, appeared but a mile distant, or only a trifle more.

I acquired the negative from the amateur performer, and had it vignetted, which made it better still, as there was a space between the cashmere sock and the spring trousering in the original that I did not want attention drawn to.

The first page or frontispiece embellisment of the present Number of the MIRROR illustrates one of the most recent triumphs of art; and the above vignette is a fragment of the monastic splendour of the twelfth century.