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ALTAR CROSS IN SILVER SET WITH
AMETHYSTS FOR PARISH CHURCH OF
KEIGHLEY, YORKS. DESIGNED AND
EXECUTED BY ALEX. F. SMITH

that the claims of the younger generation of
architects, sculptors, painters, and designers,
practically all of whom are now under arms,
should be ignored.

To France we owe in large measure the re-
vival of lithography after the discredit into
which the art had fallen as the result of the
unlimited uses to which it had been put for
commercial purposes; and among French
lithographers a distinguished place belongs to
Albert Belleroche. In point of fact, however,
although French parentage and long residence
in France led to his recognition as a French
artist, Albert Belleroche is of British birth—
Swansea being his native place—and has in
recent years become a British citizen by
choice. Across the Channel he was first known
'as a painter in oils—a picture of his is in the
Luxembourg—and it was as a second love that
he became an exponent of the method of pro-
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duction devised by Aloys Senefelder. His
work on the stone has been chiefly in black and
white, his most characteristic efforts being
drawings of feminine heads, and an interesting
point about his work is that it is drawn direct
on the stone and not transferred. Whilst as a
painter he received the customary training, as
a lithographer he is entirely self-taught.

To the many examples of artistic metal-work
produced in the workshops of the Artificers'
Guild which we have heretofore illustrated, we
now add, on p. 31, two carried out in bronze,
the grave cross being of particular interest, as
bronze is not so often employed for monuments
of this kind as its qualities deserve. With these
illustrations we give here two examples of
metal-work recently designed and executed by
provincial craftsmen. The altar cross, by’;Mr.
A. F. Smith, of Keighley, Yorkshire, is of silver,

SOUVENIR PRESENTED TO LORD PAR-
MOOR ATOPENING OFA PUBLIC LIBRARY
IN LIVERPOOL. DESIGNED AND EXE-
CUTED BY J. HODEL