It is always easier to color a picture before it has been cut from the paper. Let it lie smoothly before you on the table. Have every thing ready beforehand, with the cup of water for wetting the brushes, two or more of which will be necessary for nice work. The " Kate Greenaway" paintboxes are of tin, and made with hollow spaces opposite the colors for mixing different shades ; as red and blue to make purple, or yellow and blue for different shades of green. There are books, also, in which a colored picture is on one page, and one in black and white, to be colored like it, on the other. These are very expensive; and there is just as much pleasure to be had with an old "Harper's Weekly," or any good illustrated paper. Think what the colors ought to be before you put them on. Be very careful not to run over the edges, and make a thing look swollen or jagged; and often you can paint a picture so that it will be quite pretty enough to paste on a card and give away, or to put in a scrap-book for a sick child, either at home or in a hospital.