COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 72, 28 March 1881, Page 3

COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS.

A few days ago the rooms of the Dillettanti Clnb, in Argyle-street, London, were thrown open for an exhibition of specimens of a new develoyment of photographic art to be known as colour photography. The invitation was so widely accepted, upwards of a thousand people assembling in the rooms, that some difficulty was placed in the way of an earnest inquirer after a new thing. But it was in the end possible to get near the specimens ranged along the walls, and the inspection fully repaid the endeavor. What the new process aims at, and, judging from the portraits on view, perfectly accomplishes, is to reproduce by the action of the sun the tint in face or dress of the sitter. How this is done is not disclosed by the inventor, not is it the particular business of the sitter. It seems sufficient that a result is produced, equal perhaps in its certainty, and in artistic effect superior, to hand-painting or photography, at one third the cost. The genial features of Mr. Toole were prominent among the specimens of the portraits exhibited, and alike in fidelity or portraiture, and in the alternate raggedness and richness of attire affected by the comedian, the merits of the pictures were enthusiastically ad-

mitted. These portraits were the mo^t noticed, because the be-it known. Bnt in *eacfr wafiTwcognised the justice of the claim that the general effect clowely resembles 'paintings on ivory, the depth, richnesft, Variety, and harmony of color being exquisitely and fully reproduced.

I A New Yorker is named Stealing, and ho hates the nanw ; but he to"k the curse off it for bin daughter by making her Christian name " Worth." A new diversion among New York women of money and leisure is to save a piece of every kind of material used in their garments. These are handsomely bound in book form, each sample making one leaf. The volume forms a history of the owner's dress from season to Beason. Spoiling Trade.—" Darn the newspapers ! why can't they leave such items out? exclaimed a hard-up undertaker, when he read an article warning people not to indulge in green fruit. The Fat of the Land.— Petrolenm. < Free of Charge.— -An empty gun. The Centre of Gravity.— A presiding judge.