CHAPTER VIII

APPRECIATIVE CRITICISM. An Educative Principle--An Analysis--Realism in Art Retrospect 66

INDEX 70

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FIG.

Plate I. _Frontispiece_

1. Old Wood Engraving (Erenburg Castle) _Facing p._ 10

2. Modern Wood Engraving (The Goose Fountain, Nuremburg) " 14

3. Old Wood Engraving " 28

4. Modern Wood Engraving " 54

5. Cross Section of Cyanide Furnace _Page_ 59

6. Process Engraving _Facing p._ 60

Plate II. " 64

PREFACE

A philosopher and writer has declared that "in our fine arts, not imitation, but creation, is the aim."

It is to emphasise a distinction between an imitative and a creative art that the following chapters are offered.

"Engraving for Illustration" is pre-eminently a creative art by which the work of the artist is _translated_, "in order to render the effect of his design in such a form as will admit of rapid and effective reproduction."

It is, moreover, a popular art with a well-defined educative principle underlying the numerous phases of its manifestation; while, at the same time, its historical and general interest will commend this brief record of its progress and influence to many who are lovers of art for art's sake.

J. K. LONDON _June 1903_.

ENGRAVING FOR ILLUSTRATION