Legends and Lyrics, by A. A. Procter (Bell and Daldy, 1865), is another quarto edition of a popular poet, but here, in place of the usual hundred Birket Fosters, Gilberts, and the rest, we have but nineteen engravings; but they are all full pages. Charles Keene's two subjects are The Settlers and Rest (a night bivouac of soldiers); John Tenniel with A Legend of Bregenz, and Du Maurier with A Legend of Provence and The Requital, also represent the Punch contingent. The others are by W. T. C. Dobson, A. R. A., L. Frolich, T. Morten, G. H. Thomas, Samuel Palmer, J. D. Watson, W. P. Burton, J. M. Carrick, M. E. Edwards, and William H. Millais; all engraved by Horace Harral, who cannot be congratulated upon his rendering of some blocks. A very charming set of drawings by J. E. Millais will be found in Henry Leslie's Little Songs for me to sing (Cassell, undated). The subjects, seven in number, are slightly executed studies of childhood by a master-hand at the work. The first volume of Cassell's Shakespeare, which contains a large number of drawings by H. C. Selous, was issued this year.
G. J. PINWELL
'WAYSIDE POESIES'
THE LITTLE CALF
FREDERICK WALKER
'WAYSIDE POESIES'
THE BIT O'
GARDEN
A fine collection of reprinted illustrations is Pictures of Society (Sampson Low, 1866); its blocks are taken from Mr. James Hogg's publications, London Society and The Churchman's Family Magazine, and include the fine Sandys, The Waiting Time, and M. J. Lawless's Silent Chamber, both reproduced here by his permission. It is a scarce but very interesting, if unequal, book.