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the illustration we reproduce of a wood engraving by him of Jacqueline de Caestre, wife of Jean Charles de Cordes, by Rubens, from the original at Brussels, it loses somewhat by a slight reduction, but it conveys the brilliant colouring and the voluptuousness of that master's work in a manner impossible to any process work yet invented. This is the last word of wood engraving and if it is a moribund art it dies hard.