The ninth volume, like the eighth, has only one picture by Millais not illustrating its serial. This is _Hacco the Dwarf_ (p. 504). The others represent scenes in Miss Martineau's _Sir Christopher_ (pp. 491, 519, 547, 575, 603, 631, 659, 687), a seventeenth-century story. The illustrators of to-day should study these and other pictures where the artist was hampered by the story, and imitate his loyal purpose to expound and amplify the text, accomplishing it the while with most admirably dramatic composition and strong character-drawing. In the remaining volume of the first series there are no other examples by Millais; nor, with the exceptions _Death Dealing Arrows_ (Jan. 25, 1868, p. 79), one in the _Christmas Number for 1860_, and _Taking his Ease_, 1868 (p. 65), does he appear as a contributor to the magazine. It must not be forgotten that high prices are often responsible for the desire, or rather the necessity, of using second-rate work. When an artist attains a position that monopolises all his working hours, it is obvious that he cannot afford to accept even the highest current rate of payment for magazine illustration; nor, on the other hand, can an editor, who conducts what is after all a commercial enterprise, afford to pay enormous sums for its illustrations. For later drawings this artist was paid at least five times as much as for his earlier efforts, and possibly in some cases ten or twelve times as much. Charles Keene, the great illustrator so little appreciated by his contemporaries, whose fame is still growing daily, was a frequent contributor to _Once a Week_ for many years. Starting with volume i. he depicted, in quasi-mediæval fashion, Charles Reade's famous _Cloister and the Hearth_, then called, in its first and shorter form, _A Good Fight_ (pp. 11, 31, 51, 71, 91, 111, 131, 151, 171, 191, 211, 231, 251, 254, 273). Coincidently he illustrated also _Guests at the Red Lion_ (pp. 61, 65), _A Fatal Gift_ (p. 141), _Uncle Simkinson_ (pp. 201, 203), _Gentleman in the Plum-coloured Coat_ (p. 270), _Benjamin Harris_ (pp. 427, 449, 471), _My Picture Gallery_ (p. 483), and _A Merry Christmas_ (p. 544). In volume ii. there are only five illustrations by him (pp. 1, 5, 54, 111, and 451) to shorter tales; but to George Meredith's _Evan Harrington_, running through this volume and the next, he contributes thirty-nine drawings, some of them in his happiest vein, all showing strongly and firmly marked types of character-drawing, in which he excelled. Volume iii. contains also, on pages 20, 426, 608, 687, and 712, less important works: _The Emigrant Artist_ on p. 608 is a return to the German manner which distinguished the _Good Fight_. The drawings for _Sam Bentley's Christmas_ commence here in (pp. 687, 712), and are continued (pp. 19, 45, 155, 158) in vol. iv., where we also find _In re Mr. Brown_ (pp. 330, 332), _The Beggar's Soliloquy_ (p. 378), _A Model Strike_ (p. 466), _The Two Norse Kings_ (pp. 519, 547),