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“This book is eminently not for the perusal of the ‘snap-shot camera man,’ unless he be an ardent amateur and profoundly interested in the scientific possibilities and details of his subject.... The book is divided into eighteen chapters dealing with the camera and all its accessories. It includes articles on lenses, photo-chemical action, development and developers, fixing, washing, and drying, intensification and reduction, halation and reversal, printing processes, lantern slides and shutter exposures.”—N. Y. Times.
“He may have suited his book to the needs of his students, but the result to a stranger presents itself as a very uneven treatment of the subject.” C. J.
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“The language is simple and the diagrams assist materially in the exposition. The book should have unquestionable value for the class of readers designated in the title—and for others bent individually on experimental investigation.”
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De Selincourt, Beryl, and Henderson, May Sturge. Venice. il. **$3.50; ed. de luxe, **$7.50. Dodd.
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A generous amount of fresh material has been discovered for this much pictured city. “The illustrations, after the water-colours of Mr. Barratt, who has lived for many years in the city of the lagoons and is familiar with her in all her moods, are real triumphs of reproduction, interpreting with rare fidelity the delicate atmospheric effects that are the chief charm of the originals.” (Int. Studio.)