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Show , I'lIOTOGRAVHY ABROAD. . J fif . TtiKforeigu journals report ihat.cohlin- $X nal progress is rooking in photography.1 .? f 13 An artist in France, it is: said, produces' , ' effects that so closely resemble.- wood cn-.i A If graving, as scarcely to, bo distinguished. I I- frotnlt,; An impression is, mado on a .' T l; sheet of.somp glutinous preparation; from"' f 5 this' an electrotype copperplate Is tafcehj ) wm and from this the' picture is printed direct- 3 ly, lu London Uieru is , now an exliibi- j " tion containing some 'six, hundred speci- ,' : " " mcua of photpgraphleskjlI in uiartuo 3 , ..g views, Inslantnneousiubjccts, whem the 1 1 flashing' waves-are' arrested just as tha1 6 foaming crest turus to full. M de SeraSlianbff. who has raunl I I thrco years at Mount Athos, engaged in I Ji photbgraphmg the curiosities of .art"1 jyrc- , served there, has just returned with no . 3 less than 4,500 designs, representing viaws ' i j of oil the) convents, with their curious and. ' 1 ! f Interesting architectural features; mbnu- I m scripts of the greatest antiquity, paintings ' M produced many centuries 8go, all have . M been copied with the jaost teropnlQus fi-delity. fi-delity. ...He has reproduced entiro MS, Bibles, page by page,. with all their naive -y-M illuminations; complete plans of churches, HW from original designs by unknown artists; j V4 geogruphica) maps, which date from tha 1 ll curliest Christian times. There are .aha 3 )H collections of splendid initial letters taken R from antique manuscripts; church orna- 4Mh' meuti of various epochs, s |