Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1892. "CHOICE BLENDS."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4091, 19 April 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1892. "CHOICE BLENDS."

What an invaluable impetus is given to art by the popular magazine ot the present day f and how eaoh fresh venture which is laubbhed in the sea of " monthlies" strives, by tho introduction of something new in ; pictorial effect, to float'into favor oh the wave of public opinion. Undoubtedly the journal of modern times depends for its.success as much: on artistic perfection as on a cultivated literary talent. Nor is one quality neglected at the expense of the other, and among the leading publications of the world's great centres are some wonderful examples of exquisite taste in | the combination of both.

Photography has been of inestim- i able servioe in recent art productions ; for magazines and newspapers," The Strand Magazine," perhaps is as good an example as can be, chosen of the aome of excellence at a nominal cost, and pneof its happiest hit's was the idea of reproducing a series of portraits of living celebreties, showing on one page a number of sketches eaoh representing the subjeot at a different age, varying from childhood up to the present time; while at foot was a short biographical story of the person presented,' These likenesses, beautifully engraved from photographs, are exceedingly' interesting, presenting as they do people of note or eminence in tho world's history as they' looked in their childhood, thenin older youth, then in their prime, and yet again p-rchance, where such had been attained, in ripe old age. But it has remained : for " The Idler," Jerome K. Jerome's new magazine, the first number of which appeared only in February last, to make known to the world, at large a most curious and interesting effect in art, and the succession of "Cbohe Blends," as they are termed, which are now appearing in •' The Idler" form a strange'study. Our. own first knowledge of compound photographs was acquired in 1888 while one day lounging through the South Kendington Museum in Londonf bore we bad the privilege of bein. perspnaljj''cppdjipted' !tbrppgb/ the Anthropometric Department', and among the wondera shown to ut& wore some .extraordinary photographs. T ,fy bile ,£>.p«ariEn 11 ytt iel ik en eaa of | only one human he'ad'ats face,'really | represented the ponpentraled apjil prevailing features of quite a. number of : persons, for' by some 1 pewjy-disepve'red process if had beep fpu'fli no#l!e to aejparately i photograph a dojien pr mora pepple and then |n one plate amalgamate and] present the characteristics jbf the whole, fjjo types ive'saw op that occasion, were 'jnalply,-,ppr(irajts of prisoners, taken in various pity gaols. Since that time, however, the process seoms to have underijone a mpre general application, and " The Idler" shows us ononep9ge separate traits ofGladstone.and Sir W. V, Harcburt.and then on the opposite a combination in one picture. of both faces, the result, as the editor is careen" ip' 'Mpjaini ; iiot of any tricky i manipulation', bty'pj a''composite photograph |direclfrpin the" 'o®*s TJien' ijierp is'a blend of'threegy slpne, 'Ha'rcourt and'' Rpseberry, ; all strangean<jl jejfen' pjipb. graphio And 6p pn arp sjjpjvn ptbpr/rirnihjf illustrations pft}ij.s v !atfStpM $ art. Even opposite) are !»aa> tp ppnibinp, fop Capital, represented by Colonel Npis, and Labour by John Burns appear in one face, which possesses .the m* yaping characteristics officii' Where again a face is Smooth even as a bcj'amd another js.taified by a beard, the latter survives in,tuo 'eompund 'but in modified , extent',' yariatiphs in collars ; and articlesof neok gear cause peculiar blurs, differing jii tJi'fs 1 respect 'frorp; -$i • concentrated face, which is always clear j stone's collar, it should be remarked,

floies||lji)Bi!bre iliflfeassettß itself in atarolied stiffness even through a blend of six. : ;; - ■ '.J > The of ,an application of this hew'departure in photography to oilr;-pwn-surroundings cannot but bring a thrill of pleasure to everyone of us. Only fanoy a selectioa of choice politiual blends I What inspiration would come, for instance, from a gaze'on the compound of refinement and intelligence which the noble features of iuy our respected friends Messrs A. W; Hogg and George' Fisher, M.H.R.'s, with, to add piquancy, a dash of Mr <H, 8. Fish, thrown in, -would present, Tlfen if -W found it diflicultto take in this selection all at once, we could make a fresh blend and strive for the ideal by working nfMr B. M. Smith, and for still further modification : Mr ; 'R. Mi Taylor. Ah! there are great possibilities and -intense enjoyrucnts in the picture we paint, could we but enjoy thern, ere these 'worthy;.,men fade away into the shade of insignificance a private lifo-and such may be theirs ; at any time-so often means, . ' . .