be wide except the inner margins, and the headlines often robbed
the page of its beauty of design. The type used by the Pall Mall was, we
are glad to say, rightly approved of.

With regard to illustration, the essential thing, Mr. Walker said, is to
have harmony between the type and the decoration. He pleaded for true
book ornament as opposed to the silly habit of putting pictures where
they are not wanted, and pointed out that mechanical harmony and artistic
harmony went hand in hand. No ornament or illustration should be used in
a book which cannot be printed in the same way as the type. For his
warnings he produced Rogers's Italy with a steel-plate engraving, and a
page from an American magazine which being florid, pictorial and bad, was
greeted with some laughter. For examples we had a lovely Boccaccio
printed at Ulm, and a page out of La Mer des Histoires printed in 1488.
Blake and Bewick were also shown, and a page of music designed by Mr.
Horne.

The lecture was listened to with great attention by a large audience, and
was certainly most attractive. Mr. Walker has the keen artistic instinct
that comes out of actually working in the art of which he spoke. His
remarks about the pictorial character of modern illustration were well
timed, and we hope that some of the publishers in the audience will take
them to heart.

Next Thursday Mr. Cobden-Sanderson lectures on Bookbinding, a subject on
which few men in England have higher qualifications for speaking. We are
glad to see these lectures are so well attended.

THE BEAUTIES OF BOOKBINDING

(Pall Mall Gazette, November 23, 1888.)

'The beginning of art,' said Mr. Cobden-Sanderson last night in his
charming lecture on Bookbinding, 'is man thinking about the universe.' He
desires to give expression to the joy and wonder that he feels at the
marvels that surround him, and invents a form of beauty through which he
utters the thought or feeling that is in him. And bookbinding ranks
amongst the arts: 'through it a man expresses himself.'

This elegant and pleasantly exaggerated exordium preceded some very
practical demonstrations. 'The apron is the banner of the future!'
exclaimed the lecturer, and he took his coat off and put his apron on. He
spoke a little about old bindings for the papyrus roll, about the ivory
or cedar cylinders round which old manuscripts were wound, about the
stained covers and the elaborate strings, till binding in the mode