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To the intending reader of this brochure I wish to explain that what it contains was not written for publication in print, nor even for delivery as a lecture sufficient in itself. Once, indeed, when a person entrusted with the relative box of lantern-slides failed to put in an appearance, I made shift to entertain an audience with my unadorned prose and verse, and the kind people sat it out politely, clapping quite heartily when some one proposed and another seconded a vote of thanks. I pitied and honoured them. The only person wearing a dissatisfied expression was a stone-deaf old lady, who came early (with her knitting), and took the middle of the front row so as to see the pictures well. The whole business, however, was depressing: it was like reading a libretto to a company assembled to hear an opera. That is just what this is - a libretto for lantern pictures. It was written some years ago, with two aims - to provide a verbal string upon which to thread a collection of otherwise unrelated photographs, and also to offer to fellow-members of the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association an object lesson in the art of lecture making, as a small return for all they had taught me in regard to photography. It seemed to me that their pictures were very much better than their lectures: and that it need not be so.

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