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matter they had some of those vast natural developments which appeal to mere man as absolutely terrific. The waterfall, splashing itself into luminous dust, the immense and silent mountains, the lakes which are seas, the vasty cañons which occur in different parts of the States, inevitably appeal to the imagination. It is therefore not wonderful that the great lines of America have preferred literal and exact illustration to fantastic delineation. The railways of France, on the other hand, have employed to no inconsiderable extent the artist to figure the beauties of the places at which they have stations. Amongst the most important French designers who have worked at the railway affiche are:—Fraipont (G.): ("Chemin de fer de l'Etat: Bains de mer de Royan": "Royan sur l'Océan," "Chemin de fer d'Orléans: Excursions en Touraine": "Excursions en Touraine et aux châteaux des bords de la Loire," "Chemin de fer de l'Ouest: Argenteuil à Mantes," "Cie de l'Ouest et de Brighton: Fleurs, fruits, primeurs à destination de Londres," "Paris à Londres (L'Angleterre et l'Ecosse)" "Chemin de fer du Nord: Excursions à la mer," "Chemin de fer de l'Est: Royat," "Chemin de fer de l'Ouest: Bretagne, Normandie," "Normandie et Bretagne," "Chemin de fer de l'Ouest à Brighton: Paris à Londres," "Chemin de fer du Nord: Anvers, Exposition univer-