Runge, the German artist, it is said, learnt silhouette cutting by watching his sister at her embroidery. In 1806 he sent some marvellously cut-out flowers to Goëthe. The poet was so charmed with them that he declared he would decorate a whole room with Runge’s work; this was never done. The artist wrote early in his career: “If chance had put a pencil instead of scissors into my hand, I would draw you all, so plainly do I see you.” Herr Julius Leisching agrees with Lichtwark that the cutting out of silhouettes had great influence on Runge’s pictures. Runge’s studies of plants with scissors and paper have been privately published. He cut out while out walking; saw and cut nature down to the roots. One of the most remarkable of the paper cutters of the early nineteenth century was Hubard, who seems to have been the inevitable infant prodigy of the craft. He began his freehand scissor-work in portraiture and landscape at the early age of thirteen. The handbill which lies before us advertises his art as “Papyrolomia”—a terrible word, which doubtless had its uses in whetting the appetite of the public by mystifying them and suggesting terrifying adventures. This leaflet is illustrated with a grotesque figure, which has obviously been some of the printer’s stock-in-trade, for it is hardly germane to the subject of silhouette cutting, nor could it be the portrait of a scissor-worker of such tender years as Master Hubard, though this artist is only a secondary attraction in the show. The handbill runs thus:— Facing the George Hotel, Galway. Entrance, 376, High Street. The Papyrolomia of the celebrated Master Hubard. Little John, the Muffin Man. [_Then follows the rough wood block representing a grotesque figure._] Collection of accurate Delineations of Flowers, Trees, Perspective Views, Architectural, Military, Sporting Pieces, Family Groups, Portraits of Distinguished Individuals, etc., Elegantly Mounted Pictures and Backgrounds, by W. G. Wall, Esqre., Dublin, together with 7 grand Oriental Paintings of the most celebrated views of North America, taken on the spot by eminent British artists. Admission 1/-. For which money each visitor is to receive a correct Likeness in Bust, cut in 20 seconds, without drawing or machine, by sight alone, and simply with a pair of scissors, by a boy of 14. Those who are averse to sitting for the Likeness are presented with some small specimen of the youthful artist’s talents. Likenesses both in ink and in colours. Style from 7s. 6d. up, by artists. Frames in Gilt. Visitors are enabled to return to the Gallery by introducing a Stranger. Open from 10 till Dusk.