" [Illustration: FACSIMILE OF A PRESCRIPTION WRITTEN BY SIR ANDREW CLARK.]

There were the objects on the mantelpiece: a facsimile in bronzenot bronzed plasterof the beautiful head of Hypnos and a pair of fine Ushabti figures.

The Dunciad, variorum, with the prolegomena of Scriblerus; reproduced in facsimile from the first issue of the original ed. of 1729; with an introductory essay by Robert Kilburn Root.

" Both Condivi and Vasari relate that, during his apprenticeship to Ghirlandajo, Michelangelo demonstrated his technical ability by producing perfect copies of ancient drawings, executing the facsimile with consummate truth of line, and then dirtying the paper so as to pass it off as the original of some old master.

Autographic facsimiles for visiting cards are affectations in any persons but those who are personally remarkable for talent, and whose autographs, or facsimiles of them, would be prized as curiosities.

Professor Morse replied that he had thought of it while a pupil at Yale, and that Professor Silliman (I think) and himself had tried it with a wash of nitrate of silver on a piece of paper, but that, unfortunately, it made the lights dark and the shadows light, but that if they could be reversed, we should have a facsimile like India-ink drawings.

A page of the Brussels MS., reproduced in facsimile as a frontispiece to the present volume, will give the student a good idea of O'Clery's script and style.

"Everybody knows what Dickens's signature is like"says the reader who bases acquaintance with it upon the familiar, gold-impressed facsimile on the well-known red covers of his works"a free, dashing signature, with an extensive and well-graduated flourish underneath."