If, after acknowledging this, one cannot but regret that the photographic transfer of drawings to wood had not come into general use twenty years before it did, so that the masterpieces of the Rossetti designs to Tennyson's _Poems_ and a hundred others had not been cut to pieces by the engraver; yet at the same time we must remember that, but for the enterprise of the engraver, the drawings themselves would in all probability never have been called into existence in many cases. This is especially true of the famous volumes which Messrs. Dalziel issued under the imprint of various publishers, who were really merely agents for their distribution. _The Penny Magazine_ in 1832, and other of Charles Knight's publications, _Sharp's Magazine_, _The People's Journal_, _Howitt's Journal of Literature_, _The Illustrated Family Journal_, _The Mirror_, _The Parterre_, _The Casket_, _The Olio_, _The Saturday Magazine_, _Pinnock's Guide to Knowledge_, _Punch_, _The Illustrated London News_, had led the way for pictorial weekly papers, even as the old Annuals and the various novels by Ainsworth, Dickens, and Thackeray had prepared the way for magazines; but the artistic movement of the 'sixties,' so far as its periodicals are concerned, need be traced back no further than _Once a Week_. Perhaps, however, it would be unfair to forget the influence of _The Art Journal_ (at first called _The Art Union_), which, started in 1851, brought fine art to the homes of the great British public through the medium of wood-engravings in a way not attempted previously; and certainly we must not ignore John Cassell, who, on the demise of _Howitt's Journal_ and _The People's Journal_ in 1850, brought out an illustrated chronicle of the Great Exhibition, which was afterwards merged in a _Magazine of Art_. As _The Strand Magazine_--the first monthly periodical to exploit freely the Kodak and the half-tone block--started a whole school of imitators, so _Once a Week_, depending chiefly on drawings by the best men of the day, engraved by the foremost engravers, was followed quickly by the _Cornhill Magazine_, _Good Words_, and the rest. Many of these were short-lived; nor, looking at them impartially to-day, are we quite sure that the survivors were always the fittest. Certainly they were not always the best. But the number of new ventures that saw the light about this time can scarce be named here. Then, as now, a vast army of quite second-rate draughtsmen were available, and a number of periodicals, which it were gross flattery to call second-rate, sprang up to utilise their talents. Besides these, many weekly and monthly publications, ostensibly devoted to catering for the taste of the masses, gained large audiences and employed talented artists, but demand no more serious consideration as art, than do the 'snippet' weeklies of to-day as literature. But some of these popular serials--such as _The Band of Hope_, _The British Workman_, _The