G. DU MAURIER
'STORY OF A FEATHER'
p. 14
'HE FELT THE SURPASSING
IMPORTANCE OF
HIS POSITION'
T. MORTEN
'THE QUIVER'
IZAAK WALTON
Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Cassell, undated), issued about this time, has a number of notable contributors; but the one-sided gruesome record of cruelties which, whether true or false, are horribly depressing, has evidently told upon the artists' nerves. The illustrators, according to its title-page, are: 'G. H. Thomas, John Gilbert, G. Du Maurier, J. D. Watson, A. B. Houghton, W. Small, A. Pasquier, R. Barnes, M. E. Edwards, T. Morten, etc.' Some of the pictures have the names of artist and engraver printed below, while others are not so distinguished. Those most worthy of mention are by A. Boyd Houghton (pp. 389, 480, 508, 572, 596, and 668), S. L. Fildes (p. 493), G. Du Maurier (p. 541), and W. Small (pp. 333, 365, 624). Among artists not mentioned in the title-page are F. J. Skill, J. Lee, J. Henley, and F. W. Lawson. The first volume of Cassell's History of England appeared this year with many engravings after W. Small and others.
Another book of the season worth noting is Heber's Hymns (Sampson Low, 1867). It contains 100 illustrations by T. D. Scott, W. Small, H. C. Selous, Wilfrid Lawson, Percival Skelton, and others; but they can hardly be styled epoch-making. Christian Lyrics (Sampson Low, 1868) (re-issued later in Warne's Chandos Classics), contains 250 illustrations by A. B. Houghton, R. Barnes, and others.