Acxxameior has just brought out a beautiful improvement upon the
old crayons, which he calls his Pastiles for Tinting. Its material is a mixture of grease and wax, similar to lithographic chalk ; and it is made of every requisite variety and shade of colour. The tints produced by these crayons are transparent, and the colours therefore are peculiarly brilliant ; they also adhere to the paper with great tenacity, and will retain their brightness much longer than those formerly in use. Their greasy nature remedies the inconvenience of crumbling and liability to smear, which caused the disuse of the old crayons' and rendered the drawings made with them so easily obliterated. In sketching from nature, these pastiles are especially convenient, as an effect of colour may be dashed in with a few touches : they are well calculated, too, for miniature portrait sketches as a coloured drawing may be made as
i quickly as one n black and white, and the effect be equal to a watercolour painting.
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