that ye might have life."

ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE EACH. (Including Directions for Colouring.)

TWO SHILLINGS. (Including Photographs.)

Note.— These Scrolls cannot be sent through the Post unless 1s. 8d. be added for Postage and Packing in Millboard.

5

Drawing.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.

To begin with the purely mechanical part of our work, let us enumerate the materials required for drawing the outlines:—

3 Pencils—F, HB, and BB. 2d. each.[1]

A piece of Indian-rubber.

Red sable brushes; the sizes sold at 4d., 6d., and 8d. each: also 2 small sizes of the best Camel's hair, 2d. each, necessary for Bessemer's gold paint.

Large sized London or Bristol board, 6d. per sheet, and upwards. This is a glazed (hot-pressed) cardboard.

"Mounting-board" is rather cheaper, costing 6d. and upwards for a large sheet, but, not having so fine a surface, will not so easily bear rubbing out. It takes colour well.

Pale-tinted cardboard, grey, brown, &c., is sold in large sheets, at about 8d. per sheet.

Vellum-paper, a good imitation of vellum, is sold at 1s. per sheet.

Some sheets of white tissue and transparent tracing-paper; the latter for preserving copies in outline.

2 Rulers (flat); one of wood, about two feet long, another of bone, 6 inches; 6d. each (ivory, 2s..).

A T-ruler is very useful; 1s. and upwards.

A portfolio, 2 feet by 10 inches, to hold the scrolls, would be useful in preserving them from injury; cost, at the drawing-shops, 3s. 6d.

A list of the necessary paints will be given in the directions for colouring, page 9.

The beginner should endeavour to obtain one or two sheets of alphabets (capitals) in black and white, of the full size required, say about two inches high.

An alphabet of "lower-case," or small letters, is subjoined, which will be found to harmonise well with almost any capitals, and is in proportion to those of two or two and a half inches high.

But although the beginner will do well to copy or trace letters of the exact size required, he cannot too soon commence the practice of enlarging or reducing the copy, otherwise many very beautiful initial letters will be lost to him. The great art in copying on a different scale is to observe carefully the proportions of the original: keep every branch of the letter equal in thickness, if the original be so: or if copying, for example, a capital A, and one side of the arch be twice the width of the other, let the copy preserve the same proportion. In the letter B, observe if the two bows be of equal size; the lower is generally the larger of the two. In an equal-sided letter, like M or O, observe what ornamental parts are opposite to each other.

In drawing (or copying) small letters, be careful to make the stems of equal width or thickness, and those which pass above or below the line of equal and proportionate height or length. The tops of t's should always be lower than those of the other long letters, as in writing, and the dots of the i's in a line with the tops of the t's.

There is a small book of mediæval alphabets, published by Masters, price 2s., suited to beginners. The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval, collected and engraved by F. Delamotte (published by E. & F. N. Spon, 16 Bucklersbury, London), is valuable to those who can enlarge while copying; it contains upwards of forty alphabets, beginning with those of the 8th century, also several initial letters, and a page of monograms, crosses, &c.—most of the alphabets are one inch in height—price 4s. The best and most recent collection of letters that I have met with is The Handbook of Alphabets, Initials, and Monograms, engraved by William Gibbs, published by Houlston & Wright, 65 Paternoster Row, London, price 5s.

In arranging for the outline of a text, first select the necessary capitals. The initial (or first letter) must be the handsomest of all, as being the introduction and |Dedication.| dedication of the work to The Blessed Trinity. Capitals are generally employed throughout the Sacred Names; the first letter may be the largest, the following of the same height as the small letters.

They are also prefixed to such words as we wish especially to emphasize, as in the following examples:—

Be clothed with Humility.    My times are in Thy Hand.    Watch and Pray.

The emphasis of colour will be given in the proper place (pp. 14, &c.).

It is advisable, if possible, to select the capitals from the same alphabet; but if all that you require for the text do not suit your taste, there is no absolute objection to the introduction of others, subject to certain conditions. On no account mix the letters of different countries; the Italian, for instance, with the Saxon; they would be utterly incongruous. Also, as a writer amusingly observes,