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Show Mr. Linton's Sharp Criticism. The London Society of Arts listened recently re-cently to a lecture on "Engraving in Wood; Old and New," by Mr. W. J. Linton. The speaker saw nothing to commend iu the illustrations of American Ameri-can magazines. Ho characterized them as "generally clever and pleasing pictures, pict-ures, well designed, effective and nearly as good as photographs. These photographs, photo-graphs, if to be had, would, however, well replace them, and wo should then escape the infliction of linoar ugliness, and be no longer annoyed and insulted with the pretense of engraving." |