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THE BEDCHAMBER. FROM "CAMPING IN MENDOCINO."

selections can possibly show. We can, perhaps, scarcely hope to show improvement over these next year in the beauty and delicacy of the blocks, and in artistic printing from them; for a comparison with the best work of the sort done elsewhere will show that we are doing all that is possible anywhere. Even in the past year, the great step has been, not that we are able to get better blocks, but that we can now get in San Francisco blocks scarcely distinguishable from the best Eastern work; three only of those in this prospectus were made in the East. But our artists are every year learning better the art of magazine illustration; and we ourselves shall be able to widen the range and interest of our subjects for illustration very considerably.

We add a few out of many comments upon our illustrations in the past year:

"The April is a portfolio of lovely landscapes. The only regret—and it is a regret—connected with the illustrations of the "Forest Trees of the Sierra Nevada" is that they are printed on both sides of the pages, and in cutting them out for preservation, one or the other is lost to sight.—Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Such pictures as those which accompany the article "Christmases and Christmases," have never been excelled for delicacy and finish, even in the periodicals of Paris.—San Francisco Chronicle.

Illustrated with views, three or four of which are to be described only by the word wonderful. Mirror Lake, after a photograph, is a fascinating study. One of the washes with which Mr. Peixotto accompanies Mr. Caldwell's "California," is exquisite.—Boston Pilot."

We wish to lay emphasis on the fact that these illustrated articles, like all other articles in, will be free of advertising taint. This reiteration of our often announced policy is made because we have had repeatedly in the past year to refuse requests that