French Curl Marble -This pattern (Fig. 95), after the description of the French marble which has been given, will not require much explanation, the only difference in working being this-you must not have any preparation of the flea seed with the gum. You must also procure a frame (Fig. 96) with as many pegs as you require curls on your sheet of paper; these pegs must be about 3in.

long, and about the thickness of a stout goose quill, rather tapering towards a point. Throw on your colors in the same manner as for large French, take your frame of pegs, and, holding? it with both hands, put the pegs down to the bottom of the trough; give it a slight rotary motion, then lift it out quickly, so that no drops fall from the pegs into the trough, and lay on the paper as usual, taking care to lay it down true and even, or the whole pattern will be askew.

Spanish Marble - This is distinguished from all others by having a series of light and dark shades traversing the whole extent of the sheet of paper in a diagonal direction (see Fig. 97); and, as it is not our design to puzzle or mislead the inquirer, but to' simplify as much as possible, we will here state that all the plain Spanish patterns may be worked and managed without the aid of any other agents than ox gall and water; of course, presuming that the colors are ground and prepared as before directed. We will commence with one of the most simple and easy patterns. This is called olive Spanish, with red and blue veins. Mix the veins with gall and water, as in the previous kinds of marbling, until you bring them to the requisite consistence; and, as it is not possible to state any given measure for proportioning the gall and water exactly, you must be guided by your own judgment, observing the effect produced in your colors as you try them on the solution; for our experience has often proved that the gall taken from one animal has been more powerful than that taken from another. But this rule is almost without an exception: That each successive color requires more gall than the one that preceded it, and that the principal or body color requires to be thicker in itself, and stronger in gall, than any of the others. Having, therefore, mixed and prepared your colors, and placed the preparation of gum and flea seed in the trough, you proceed to sprinkle on lightly first the red, then the blue, and, lastly, with a good brush, full of color, the olive, beginning at the left-hand corner of

the trough farthest from you, and working down and up closely allover, taking care not to go twice over the same place, or you will produce rings by the falling of one spot upon another, which is considered objectionable (we do not mean to say that it can be avoided altogether, but to a certain extent it can). You now take up the paper by the two opposite 'corners, and, holding it as nearly upright as possible, yet with a degree of ease and looseness only to be attained by practice, you let the corner in your right hand gently touch the color in the trough, while at the same time you shake or move it to and fro with a regular motion, letting the other part of the sheet gradually descend with the left hand till it all lies flat upon the surface of the solution.

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