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" pay" in the struggie for daiiy bread. It is ex-
pected that a statuette shouid be soid for a srnall
sum, and for a smaH sum it can be sold when it is
multiplied in from hfteen to twenty bronze copies.
But casting is so expensive that fewyoung scuiptors
can afford to have their modeis cast the requisite
number of times; and the resuit is that they fail to
hold their own against the cheap statuettes which
come into the market, always in iarge numbers,
frorn Italy and from other countries. This cannot
but be discouraging; yet there are some among
them who try hard to meet the emergency in a
practical manner. Thus Mr. Wells does his own
casting. The results, thus far, have been quite
satisfactory, and he hopes that he may be able to
continue the practice. Not only has he hit upon a
means by which a great deal of expense may be
saved, but he has passed many leisure hours in
a manner as interesting as it is instructive. Still,
as few serve two arts with equal good fortune, we
cannot be sure that Mr. Wells has solved the

difhculty of reducing to a minimum his working
expenses. He may hnd after a time that his
attention is too much engaged by the process of
casting, to the hindrance of his original work.
Meantime, in any case, his experiment is worth
trying, and Mr. Wells deserves to be congratulated
on his resourceful courage.
ry-SHE NEW SOLID OIL-COLOURS:
] INTERVIEW WITH M. J. F.
' RAFFAELLI.
A DELictous and very simple little at the
end of the Rue de Courcelles, No. 202 : a big
garden, with Hne trees and a studio in it. A gallery
joins house and
Introduced into the well-Iighted studio, we Hnd
the painter at his easel. Before him on a stool is
a long box full of little sticks of all colours. Some
he holds in his left hand, while with another, in
his right, he produces on his canvas a long and
thick How of col-
our. The work
represents a land-
scape at sunset,
and the trees are
casting their long,
bluish shadows
across the mea-
dow ....
Still going on
with his work, M.
Raffaelli inquires :
"You have come
to see my colours,
and how they are
used ? "
" Yes ; but how
easily you seem
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" The fact is,
work has become
a real joy to me.
Everything seems
easy to rne now,
whereas painting
in oils as we
practise it is very
arduous . . . ."
" Is it not less
arduous for others
differently consti-
tuted ?"

ROY CUTTING A STICK

BY REGINALD F. WELLS


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