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Preface. r~T~JHIS little instruction book is intended for the beginner, J~ therefore both its aim and its small dimensions preclude the possibility of any attempt to deal with the subject exhaus- tively. With this object in view I have endeavoured to convey in the simplest possible language, and with, as far as may be, an absence of technical terms, sufficient practical directions to enable a novice by the easiest methods to master the art of making lantern slides. The gelatino-bromide process has been chosen as offering the fewest difficulties. Duplicate methods of working have been avoided not only on account of exigencies of space, but as tending to lessen the chance of confusing the reader. The book also differs from those ivhich have preceded it in that there is included within its covers directions for the exhibition of the slides as well as their production. These directions are, how- ever, only intended for the unskilled amateur lanttrnist who may desire to exhibit his own transparencies to the best possible advan- tage before an audience of his relatives and friends, and it in no way competes with other treatises which deal with the subject from a more general standpoint. The amateur photographer who does not exhibit as well as make lantern slides loses no small measure of enjoyment from the practice of his hobby. This little treatise is dedicated in grateful recognition of many happy hours spent in acquiring the information, which it is hoped a perusal of its pages may impart, to those beginners in photography who may desire to learn not only how to make good lantern slides but to exhibit them to the best advantage. London, 1906. JOHN A. HODQES.