Frederick Sandys,del.
"Oh, what's that in the hollow, so pale I quake to follow?
Oh, that's a thin dead body which waits th'eternal term."
Christina Rossetti.
[CHAPTER V: OTHER ILLUSTRATED PERIODICALS OF THE SIXTIES. 'CHURCHMAN'S FAMILY MAGAZINE,' 'SUNDAY MAGAZINE,' ETC.]
In devoting another chapter to periodicals one must insist upon their relative importance; for the time and money expended on them in a single year would balance possibly the cost of all the books mentioned in this volume. In a naïve yet admirable article in the Christmas Bookseller, 1862, written from a commercial standpoint, the author says, speaking of some pictures in Good Words: 'Some of these, we are informed, cost as much as £50 a block, a sum which appears marvellous when we look at the low price of the magazine'; he instances also the celebrated 'J. B.'[3], 'whose delineations of animals are equal to Landseer. The magazines to be noticed are those only which contain original designs; others, The National Magazine, the Fine Arts Quarterly, and the like, which relied upon the reproductions of paintings, are not even mentioned.
THE CHURCHMAN'S FAMILY MAGAZINE
Any periodical containing the work of Millais and Sandys is, obviously, in the front rank, but The Churchman's Family Magazine, which started in January 1863, did not long maintain its high level; yet the first half a dozen volumes have enough good work to entitle them to more than passing mention. This, like London Society, was published by Mr. James Hogg, and must not be confounded with another of the same price, with similar title, The Churchman's Shilling Magazine, to which reference is made elsewhere. In the familiar octavo of its class, it is well printed and well illustrated. The first volume contains two full pages by Millais, Let that be please (p. 15) and You will forgive me (p. 221); three illustrations by E. J. Poynter to The Painter's Glory (pp. 124, 131, 136); three by T. Morten (pp. 137, 432, and 531); five by J. D. Watson, Only Grandmamma (p. 89), Christian Martyr (p. 104), Sunday Evening (p. 191), The Hermit (p. 260), and Mary Magdalene (p. 346); three by Charles Green to How Susy Tried (pp. 57, 64, 71), and one each to Henry II. (p. 385), and An Incident in Canterbury Cathedral (p. 482), a drawing strangely resembling a 'John Gilbert.' H. S. Marks is represented by Home Longing (p. 113) and Age and Youth (p. 337); H. H. Armstead by Fourth Sunday in Lent (p. 245) and Angel Teachers (p. 539); J. C. Horsley by Anne Boleyn (p. 136); F. R. Pickersgill by The Still Small Voice (p. 586); G. H. Thomas by Catechising in Church (p. 225), and R. Barnes by Music for the Cottage (p. 289) and The Strange Gentleman (p. 293). Besides these the volume contains others by Rebecca (sister to Simeon) Solomon (p. 571), L. Huard, D. H. Friston, H. C. Selous, T. Macquoid, W. M'Connell, T. Sulman, E. K. Johnson (Spenser, p. 576), and J. B. Zwecker—a very fairly representative group of the average illustrator of the period. The second half of 1863 (vol. ii.) enshrines the fine Frederick Sandys, The Waiting Time, an incident of the Lancashire cotton famine (p. 91). Another of M. J. Lawless's most charming designs, One Dead (p. 275), (reprinted under the title of The Silent Chamber), will be found here. M. E. Edwards contributes two, Ianthe's Grave (p. 128) and Child, I said (p. 405); G. J. Pinwell is represented once with By the Sea (p. 257); and T. Morten with The Bell-ringers' Christmas Story (p. 513). The other artists include H. C. Selous, C. W. Cope, F. R. Pickersgill, E. Armitage, A. W. Cooper, E. H. Wehnert, E. H. Corbould, Marshall Claxton, P. W. Justyne, P. Skelton, Paulo Priolo, D. H. Friston, H. Sanderson, Creswick, and T. B. Dalziel. In vol. iii. (1864) M. J. Lawless has Harold Massey's Confession (p. 65); C. Green, Thinking and Wishing (p. 223); G. J. Pinwell, March Winds (p. 232); M. E. Edwards, At the Casement (p. 354); and T. Morten, The Twilight Hour (p. 553). Among other contributors are Florence Caxton, L. Huard, H. M. Vining, W. M'Connell, Rebecca Solomon, H. Fitzcook, John Absolon, Percy Justyne, F. W. Keyl, W. J. Allen.