THE FREE LANCE.
Vox,. XII.
WILLIAM 1 4 . AVV.r,r4DER, '99, Editor-in-Chief.
N. W. MCCAU I UM, '99
H. P. Woon, '99.
W. H. THOMSON, '99,
S. H. KUHN, 'Or.
B. C. BRADY, 'OO,
B. T. Cox, E, 'oo.
G. C. SHAAD, 'OO,
C. T. WADR, 'or.
D. B. WENTZEL, 'OO, .Business Manager.
C. E. DENNEY, 'oo, Assistant.
PRIZE SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE.
ALMOST without exceptions, the illustrations which we see
everywhere about us, in books, in papers and in magazines
were printed from some one of the following kinds of plates:
first, process plates of line drawings; second, process half tone
plates; third, half tone plates worked upon by wood engravers,
and fourth, electro-types of wood engravings. Up to within com-
NoTE: To exemplify what is represented by these four classes of work,
probably no familiar publication will serve so well as The Century, for it is
the finest, and most expensively illustrated of magazines. The references
given apply to the issue for March, 1899.
A fine example of the wood engraver's art, printed in colored ink, is the
frontispiece; another wood engraving, by Timothy Cole, a famous en
graver, will be found on page 707. Compare with these the illustration on
page 741, a half tone reproduction worked upon by a wood engraver, pro
ducing a beautiful effect. Working on half tones, as the engraver has on
this one, relieves them of their monotony, caused by the numberless
minute dots of which the picture is composed; this effect may be observed in
the half tones on pages 684 and 688. Another pure half tone, of a photo
graph, will be found on page 709. For crayon and charcoal drawings, re
produced by the half tone process, see pages 744 .and 753, and for wash
drawings see pages 704 and 776. Page 756 has a line reproduction of a pen
drawing made from a photograph; the advertisement opposite page 800 is
another example of line work. For intense black and white effect see page
MARCH, 1899
Editors
PHOTO-ENGRAVING.
No. 9.