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8 attempts to supersede the first and most successful efforts.

Others again have from a purely mercenary motive used such materials in the composition of their varnish that were not of the best quality, and which, in the course of time, have deteriorated to such an extent that at the present time varnishes are much below the standard set by the examples left us by the great masters of other days.