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June 5, 1868.] THH PHOTO GRAPHIC NEWS. 269 in another group, on the forecastle of the doomed ship, stood officers, crew, and passengers, awaiting in silent terror their inevitable fate. A brief interval, and on she came. One crash—a rebound—another, and the Guy Mannering was rent into a thousand pieces. Where a huge ship appeared a moment before, the seething waves were dotted with planks, broken spars, bales of cotton, and drowning seamen. Dark ness soon veils the rest, and when morn glimmers on the shore the sleepers are many. The breeze of ocean lifts their locks, but they do not awake. The people gather them together under a sail on the hillside. After a few days, in the feeble sunlight of an early January afternoon, with bare head and measured step, these islesmen bore them in long procession across the island to the lonely Cathedral ruins, where the last rite man paid to man was paid. So they buried them, these simple Islanders, and the dust of these nineteenth century seamen—Yankee, Irish-American, and negro—mingles with that of kings and chiefs who lived before the Norman Conqueror, 800 years ago. “ LUX GRAPHICUS ” ON THE WING. The late Lord BROUGIIAM—New Fields for Photography —Natural Objects Coloured—The Monochrome and Autotype—Mr. McLachlan again. Death has Just swept away one of the most gigantic intellects of the nineteenth century. For mo to state what the late Lord Brougham was, or attempt to enumerate his vast attainments, or measure the strength of his colossal mind, would be a piece of intolerable presumption ; but I think I may safely say that he was an enthusiastic admirer of photography. Years ago, in the midst of his parliamentary and other pressing duties, whenever he could And time to enjoy the quiet of Brougham Hall, near Penrith, his giant mind was not above indulging in the delightful relaxation it afforded ; and many a pleasant hour he used to spend chatting with Mr. Jacob Thompson, an artist of great ability, and also a very early amateur photo grapher, on the wonderful results obtained by the new art. The late Lord Brougham began his literary career by publishing a treatise on Light, before photography was known or thought to be practicable ; in after life he interested himself in its marvel lous productions; and his last literary labour was also about light. Not only did the great statesman “ know a little of everything,” ho did a little in everything. The deceased lord tsok a lively interest in the progress of photography during his lifetime, from its earliest introduction to within a short period of his death; and it would have been a graceful and fitting compliment to the memory of the great man of law, politics, literature, and science, if the English newspapers had embellished their memoirs of the late Lord Brougham with a photographic portrait of his lordship. Such a thing is quite practicable, and has been done successfully by our more enter prising confreres in Canada and the United States. The Mon treal Weekly Herald of April the 18th illustrates its memoir of the late Mr. T. d’Arcy McGee with a very excellent carte-de- visito portrait of the lamented and unfortunate Canadian Minister, mounted on the upper corner of the front page, sur rounded with a deep black border. What an appropriate accompaniment such a presentation would have been to the able articles and memoirs which appeared in the daily press on Monday, May 11th, 1868 I How much more interesting and valuable those clever biographical sketches of great men. as they pass away to their rest, which appear in the Daily Tele graph and other daily and weekly papers, would appear if illus trated with a photograph from life ! That it can be done the Montreal Weekly Herald has recently and satisfactorily shown ; and surely there is enterprise, spirit, and wealth enough among the British newspaper proprietors to follow the very laudable example of our transatlantic cousins. Negatives of great men are always attainable, and there need bo no commercial diffi culty between the photographer and newspaper proprietor on the score of supply. A multiplication of negatives or Wood bury’s process, would afford all the necessary facilities for pro ducing the prints in largo numbers. Many new fields for the good of photography arc opening up. Pathological works have been photograpically illustrated with some amount of success. Birt far pleasanter fields are open to enterprising photographers in the faithful representa tion of natural objects, such as flowers, fruits, ferns, grasses, shrubs, trees, shells, seaweeds, birds, butterflies, moths, and every variety of animal life, from the lowest orders to the highest. I believe the time is not far distant when the best works on all the physical sciences will be illustrated by coloured photographs. Those very beautiful German photographs of flowers recently introduced show most conclusively of what photography is capable as a help to a study of the natural sciences. The flowers are not only photographed from nature, but exquisitely coloured after the same fountain of truth; and the sense of reality, roundness, and relief which they con vey is truly wonderful. Hitherto the colouring of natural objects photographed from nature has been a very difficult thing to accomplish ; but now it is done, and with a marvellous success. The monochromatic process is also making great strides in advance. Those very beautiful transparencies, cabinet size, of the Queen and Loyal Family are now to be seen in most of the photographic picture shop-windows in town and country. These transparencies are the productions of the Disderi Company, by Woodbury’s photo-relief process, and the results now obtained are really beautiful, both in effect and colour, and sold at a very low price. But the chef-d'ouvre of all monochromatic effects has just been achieved by the triple labours of Mr. Macnee, the artist, and Mr. Annan, the photographer, of Glasgow, and Mr. J. W. Swan, of Newcastle. The subject in question is a work of art in every respect. The original is a full-length portrait of Lord Belhaven, painted by Daniel Macnee, and now in the Royal Academy Exhibition. A photograph taken from the painting by Mr. Annan was worked up in monochrome by the eminent artist, from which another negative was taken by the same skilful photographer, and placed in the hands of Mr. J. W. Swan, to be printed in carbon, which the latter gentle man has done in the most admirable manner. Altogether, the result is the most satisfactory reproduction by photography that has ever been placed before the public, and is less like a photo graph and more like a fine mezzotint engraving than anything I ever saw. Mr. Annan is now publishing the work on his own responsibility, and a specimen of it can be seen at the offices of “ The Autotype Printing and Publishing Company,” 5, Hay market, London. Mr. Hill, of Edinburgh, is also about to pub lish, in carbon, a photograph of that beautifully painted picture entitled “ A Fairy Raid,” which was exhibited last year in the rooms of the Royal Academy by Sir Noel Paton. As in the former case, Mr. Annan copied the painting, Sir Noel worked on a print in monochrome, which was again photographed by Mr. Annan, and the negative passed to Mr. J. W. Swan to be printed in carbon. I understand that Prynter's celebrated pic ture of “ Israel in Egypt ” is about to be published, in a similar manner, by the Autotype Company. It is therefore quite evi dent that photography is becoming, in reality, more and more “ a foe to graphic art,” and eclipsing the lights and deepening the shadows of the unluxy engraver. Mr. McLachlan has again spoken without giving any very materially new facts, or throwing much more light on his mysterious mode of working. The great point is, to throw light on the concentrated solution of nitrate of silver ; and until that has been done it will be impossible for any one to say from experience and practice that there is nothing in the principle. Mr. McLachlan attributes a chemical property to the action of light on the bath that has never been thought of before, and he seems to believe it so sincerely himself, and expresses his convictions so earnestly, that I think photographers are some what bound to wait patiently till time and light will enable them to comply with all the conditions he lays down, and make a series of careful experiments, before they can say whether they are under obligations- to him or not. At any rate, natural justice suggests that they should not render a foregone verdict.—Yours very truly, Lux GRAPHICUS. May 17, 1868. A NEW MODE OF DRYING PLATES. BY M. CAREY LEA.* I shall endeavour, in what I am about to say, to show the vital importance of perfect drying for dry plates, the imper fection of the methods commonly employed, and then shall describe a new method exclusively employed by me for nearly a year with most satisfactory results. * Philadelphia Photographer.
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