BY HOWARD PYLE. FROM “THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.”
BY HOWARD PYLE. FROM HOLMES’S “ONE HOSS SHAY” (GAY AND BIRD).
If, as is universally admitted, America has produced the best example of an illustrated magazine that the world has to show, it is not very difficult to find out the reason. Editors have secured the services of some of the best native artists, and are ready to use the work of foreigners. Also many of the best engravers work for these periodicals, and in machine printing Theodore de Vinne has set up a standard for the whole world. If these men have become master craftsmen, it is because they first studied their art profoundly, and then learned the practical requirements and technical conditions under which drawings can best be reproduced for the printed page, as well as the best methods of printing that page.
BY ALFRED BRENNAN. PEN DRAWING FROM “THE CONTINENT.”
BY A. B. FROST. FROM “STUFF AND NONSENSE” (SCRIBNER’S).