is useful for
some purposes, but the pen touch on clay board is apt to become
mechanical.

2.--FOR DRAWINGS IN PENCIL AND CHALK, grained papers are used (see p.
113 and following). These papers are made of various textures, with
black or white lines and dots vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. As
a matter of fact, grained papers are little used in book and
newspaper illustration in this country, and unless artistically
treated the results are very unsatisfactory. They are most suitable
for landscape work and sketches of effect.

3.--FOR WASH DRAWINGS.--Prepared boards for wash drawings, varying in
surface and texture according to the scale of the drawing, the brush
handling of the artist, and the nature of the work to be reproduced.
These must be decided by the teacher. Lamp black and opaque white are
commonly used. A combination of line and wash is generally to be
avoided.

The materials for drawing for reproduction are to be obtained from the
following amongst other artists' colourmen.

A. ACKERMAN, 191, Regent Street, W.

J. BARNARD & SON, 19, Berners Street, W.

CORNELISSEN & SON, 22, Great Queen Street, W.C.

LECHERTIER, BARBE, & Co., 60, Regent Street, W.

JAS. NEWMAN, 24, Soho Square, W.

REEVES & SONS, 113, Cheapside, E.C.

CHAS. ROBERSON & CO., 99, Long Acre, W.C.

GEO. ROWNEY & CO., 64, Oxford Street, W.

WINSOR & NEWTON, 37, Rathbone Place, W.

PERCY YOUNG, 137, Gower Street, W.C.

BOOKS FOR STUDENTS.

The following will be found useful:--

1.--"_The Graphic Arts_," by P. G. HAMERTON (London: Macmillan &
Co.).

2.--"_Pen and Pencil Artists_," by JOSEPH PENNELL (London: Macmillan
& Co.).

3.--"_English Pen Artists of To-Day_," by J. G. HARPER (London:
Rivington, Percival & Co.).

The value and comprehensive character of Mr. Hamerton's book is well
known, but it reaches into branches of the art of illustration far
beyond the scope of this book. Of the second it may be said that Mr.
Joseph Pennell's book is most valuable to students of "black and white,"
with the caution that many of the illustrations in it were _not drawn
for reproduction_, and would not reproduce well by the processes we have
been considering. The third volume seems more practical for elementary
and technical teaching. It is to be regretted that these books are so
costly as to be out of the reach of most of us; but they can