ook
illustration, as it is irksome to the artist and not capable of very
good results; moreover, the drawing has often to be minute, as the
reproduction will be the same size as the original. It is one of the
processes which I think the student of art had better not know much
about.[15]

That it is possible, by the common processes, to obtain strong effects
almost equal to engraving, may be seen in some process illustrations by
Mr. Lancelot Speed, in which many technical experiments have been made,
including the free use of white lining.

Mr. Speed is very daring in his experiments, and students may well
puzzle over the means by which he obtains his effects by the line
processes.

[Illustration]

The illustration opposite from Andrew Lang's _Blue Poetry Book_, shows a
very ingenious treatment of the black-lined papers. Technically it is
one of the best examples I know of,--the result of much study and
experiment.

[Illustration: _From Andrew Lang's "Blue Poetry Book."_ (LANCELOT
SPEED.)

No. XXIII.]

[Illustration: No. XXIV.

"_The Armada_," by LANCELOT SPEED.

This extraordinary example of line drawing for process was taken from
Andrew Lang's _Blue Poetry Book_, published by Messrs. Longmans.

In this illustration no wash has been used, nor has there been any
"screening" or engraving on the block. The methods of lining are, of
course, to a great extent the artist's own invention. This
illustration and the two preceding lead to the conclusion that there
is yet much to learn in _drawing for process_ by those who will study
it. The achievements of the makers of the blocks, with difficult
drawings to reproduce, is quite another matter. Here all is easy for
the reproducer, the common zinc process only being employed, and the
required effects obtained without much worrying of the printer, or of
the maker of the blocks.

* * * * *

Thus far all the illustrations in this book have been produced by the
common line process.]

[Illustration: "SEINE BOATS." (FROM THE PAINTING BY LOUIS GRIER.)]

"HALF-TONE" PROCESS.

The next process to consider is the method of reproducing wash drawings
and photographs on blocks suitable for printing at the type press,
commonly known as the Meisenbach or "half-tone process;" a most
ingenious and valuable invention, which, in clever hands, is capable of
artistic results, but which in common use has cast