W. HEMSLEY.
C. BRANWHITE.
J. WOLF.
C. WEIGALL.
HARRISON WEIR.
R. R.
E. V. B.
LUCETTE E. BARKER.
"Christmas has seldom produced a gift-book more creditable to all concerned in it than this beautiful volume. The poetry is well chosen; the passages being for the most part bits of real description, excellent in their kind, from the writings of our poets, from the time of Lord Surrey to that of Tennyson, with two or three beautiful bits from American authors. Now and then a poem is inserted, which, if not descriptive, is in spirit and feeling akin to the season to which it is referred; and this gives variety to what might otherwise be too great a mass of description. As a book of extracts merely, it would be an intelligent and creditable selection, made upon a distinct and coherent plan. But the drawings of Messrs. Foster, Davidson, Weir, Creswick, Cox, Duncan, and Branwhite, are a great addition to the volume; and the coloured engravings have been happy in catching the spirit and character of the artist themselves.
"Though on a small scale, the feeling of some of the designs is admirable, specially those devoted to the illustration of spring and summer—the seasons which, both in poetry and painting, have the greatest amount of honour in this volume. The publisher is entitled to the praise of great care and attention to the appearance of the book; the colour and texture of the paper, the type, and the binding are unexceptionable. It is a book to do credit to any publisher."—Guardian.
GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street.