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hope that, by thus placing into juxtaposition the two ends of the line of development, the advances made would become apparent at a glance. The whole collection was, therefore, to be looked upon as a tableau, illustrating the condition of the multiplying arts at or about the time of the discovery of America, and the condition of the same arts in the 19 century with added specimens of the principal processes introduced in the four hundred years intervening between these periods.
With this end in view, sixteen large frames were filled with prints, each frame containing on an average [[insertion]] about [[/insertion]] six [[strikethrough]]?[[/strikethrough]]prints, and arranged as follows: - Frame 1 contained wood-cuts of the 15. and 16. centuries, while in frame 2, alongside of it, were shown wood-engravings by American wood-engravers, produced within the ten or twelve years last past. A similar arrangement