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MODERN WOOD-ENGRAVING.
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MM. Best and Leloir were the most distinguished, together with MM. Brevière, Porret, and Lavoignat, produced some cuts of considerable value both in book-illustration and in the art magazines. In Germany, too, wood-engraving counts
![Fig. 73.—Death as a Friend](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/History_of_Wood_Engraving_0171.jpg/400px-History_of_Wood_Engraving_0171.jpg)
Fig. 73.—Death as a Friend.
some good workmen among its following, but the German woodcuts, of which the two (Figgs. 73, 74) here given are fa-