16 DECEMBER 1899, Page 21

The Process Year - Book for 1899. Edited by W. Gamble. (Pen-

rose.)—This is a technical work dealing with the various ways in which illustrations are now produced. The curious thing is to note the difference between the beauty of the black-and white work and the complete hideousness of the attempts to produce coloured prints. When the process-workers try to re- produce coloured pictures done with a brush, they inevitably rush on disaster, and their results are quite intolerable. When they give up this battle with the impossible, and produce works specially designed to be printed in colour, they may perhaps reach the perfection already attained by the Japanese.