agazines, are generally the result of want
of care on the part of the artist rather than of the maker of the
blocks.

[Illustration: No. XXIX.

This is part of a page illustration lent by the proprietors of
_Sketch_. It does not do justice to the talent (or the taste, we will
hope), of the illustrator, and is only inserted here to record the
kind of work which is popular in 1894. (Perhaps in a second edition we
may have other exploits of genius to record.)

It should be noted that this and the illustration on p. 149 are both
reproduced by the same hal-ftone process, the difference of result
being altogether in the handling of the brush. This sketch would have
been intolerable in less artistic hands. Artists will doubtless find
more feeling and expression in the broad washes and splashes before
us, than in the most careful stippling of Mr. Manton.

Students of wash drawing for process may take a middle course.]

A word here on the influence of

PROCESS-BLOCK MAKERS

on the young illustrator. The "process man," the teacher and inciter to
achievements by this or that process, is not usually an "artist" in the
true sense of the word. He knows better than anyone else what lines he
can reproduce, and especially what kind of drawing is best adapted for
his own process. He will probably tell the young draughtsman what
materials to use, what amount of reduction his drawings will bear, and
other things of a purely technical not to say businesslike character.
Let me not be understood to disparage the work of photo-engravers and
others engaged on these processes; on the contrary, the amount of
patience, industry, activity, and anxious care bestowed upon the
reproduction of drawings and paintings is astonishing, and deserves our
gratitude.[17] This work is a new industry of an important kind, in
which art and craft are bound up together. The day has past when
"process work" is to be looked down upon as only fit for the cheapest,
most inferior, and inartistic results.

[Illustration: "THE BROOK." (FROM A PAINTING BY ARNOLD HELCKE.)]

PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS.

One result of hasty work in making drawings, and the uncertainty of
reproduction, promises to be a very serious one to the illustrator, as
far as we can see ahead, viz.: the gradual substitution of photographs
from life for other forms of illustration. The "Meisenbach" reproduction
of a photograph from life, say a full length figure