COLE, TIMOTHY American wood engraver, was born in London in 1852, his family emigrating to the United States in 1858. He established himself in Chicago, where in the great fire of 1871 he lost everything he possessed. In 1875 he removed to New York, finding work on the Century (then Scrib ner's) magazine. He immediately attracted attention by his un usual facility and his sympathetic interpretation of illustrations and pictures, and his publishers sent him abroad in 1883 to engrave a set of blocks after the old masters in the European galleries. These achieved for him a brilliant success. His re productions of Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and English pictures were published in book form with appreciative notes by the engraver himself. Though the advent of new mechanical processes had rendered wood engraving almost a lost art and left practically no demand for the work of such craftsmen, Mr. Cole was thus en abled to continue his work, and became one of the foremost contemporary masters of wood engraving. He received a medal of the first class at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, and the only grand prize given for wood engraving at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904. He is an honorary member of the Society of Sculptors, Painters and Engravers, London, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of Notes to Old Italian Masters, and other critical essays.