It was when on his way home from the American continent that Edouart met with that misfortune which so preyed upon his mind that he died in a short time. The ship “Oneida,” on which he travelled, was wrecked off the coast of Guernsey, and a large portion of Edouart’s collection was lost, together with much personal luggage, and a good deal of the cargo of cotton from Maryland. He died near Calais in 1861. The very clever freehand scissor pictures of Paul Konewka are justly famous. Like Edouart, he was of the nineteenth century. Born in 1840, he was the son of a university official in Greifswald. After a public school education, he studied under Menzel, for whose influence he was ever grateful. He dedicated his _Falstaff and his Companions_ to him while his master lay dying. During his travels through Germany, Konewka cut a very large number of portraits which are now treasured in the possession of private owners. The actress, Anna Klenk, served as a model for many of his very beautiful figures. While in Tübingen, at the Clinical Institute, he used quietly to cut the portraits of many of the listeners, and the professor who was lecturing as well. Such was his skill that he did his work by touch alone under the table. He was introduced to a general in Berlin, who flattered him, but called his gift dangerous. Konewka immediately handed him his own likeness, cut out of the lining of his dress-coat at the back while the general addressed him. Surely the same might be said of Konewka as was said of Runge, “the scissors have become nothing less than a lengthening of my fingers.” It is as a book illustrator that Konewka is best known to the world. Besides the _Falstaff and his Companions_ dedicated to Paul Heyse, illustrations for _Midsummer Night’s Dream_ and twelve sheets for Goëthe’s _Faust_, children’s picture books, loose sheets, and many other illustrations, were cut by him. Konewka died in Berlin in 1871, his last silhouette being that of a dying trooper to illustrate the German song, “O Strasburg du wunderschœn Stadt.” No less gifted in the art of scissor-cutting was Karl Fröhlich, once a compositor. His skill was chiefly directed towards little genre pictures of children plucking flowers, winged cupids, old men and women drinking coffee, and much fine landscape work. Unlike Konewka, he never cut wood blocks, so that his work has not been accessible for publication. P. Packeny was an enthusiastic amateur, who worked in Vienna from 1846. He cut landscapes and genre pictures, but unfortunately did not confine himself to black and white effects, so that much of his work is spoilt by the use of brightly coloured papers.