'A specimen of the most recent application of the versatile art of lithography' which is also given, dates the popular introduction of the coloured plate by which several magazines, _Nature and Art_, _The Chromo-lithograph_, etc., were illustrated entirely; others, especially _The Sunday at Home_, _Leisure Hour_, _People's Magazine_, etc., from 1864 onwards issued monthly frontispieces in colours and gold--a practice now confined almost wholly to boys' magazines. The pictures by artists already associated with _Once a Week_ include (in vol. i. p. 8) two by A. Boyd Houghton, _The Queen of the Rubies_ (p. 177) and _A Turkish Tragedy_ (p. 448); four by Paul Gray, _The Phantom Ship_ (p. 43), _Blanche_ (pp. 291, 317), and _The Fight on Rhu Carn_ (p. 713); two by T. Morten, _The Dying Viking_ (p. 239), a drawing curiously like Sandys's _Rosamunda_, and _King Eric_ (p. 435); six by W. Small, _Billy Blake's Best Coffin_ (p. 15), _Kattie and the Deil_ (p. 99), _The King and the Bishop_ (p. 183), _The Staghound_ (p. 295), _Thunnors Slip_ (p. 351), and _Larthon of Inis-Huna_ (p. 575); five by J. Lawson: _The Watch-tower_ (p. 121), _Theocritus_ (p. 211), _In statu quo_ (p. 463), _Ancient Clan Dirge_ (p. 491), and _Wait On_ (p. 631); one by F. W. Lawson, _A Sunday a Century ago_ (p. 671), and others. Among recruits we find R. Barnes with _Lost for Gold_ (p. 407), B. Bradley with _A Raid_ (p. 659), eleven by Edward Hughes, and many by G. Bowers, R. T. Pritchett, F. J. Slinger, and others. Altogether the New Series started bravely. In vol. ii. New Series, the so-called 'extra illustrations' include _The Suit of Armour (Frontispiece)_, by Sir John Gilbert; _Evening_ (p. 97), by Basil Bradley; _Poor Christine_ (p. 245), by Edward Hughes; _Among the Breakers_ (p. 344), by E. Duncan; _The Nymph's Lament_ (p. 476), by G. Du Maurier; and _The Huntress of Armorica_ (p. 706), by Paul Gray. Of 'old hands' Du Maurier has another of his graceful drawings, _Lady Julia_ (p. 239), and Paul Gray has, besides the special plate, eleven to _Hobson's Choice_ (pp. 169, 197, 225, 253, 281, 309, 337, 365, 393, 421, and 449); three by A. Boyd Houghton are _A Dead Man's Message_ (p. 211); and _The Mistaken Ghost_ (pp. 687, 723); T. Morten has only a couple, _The Curse of the Gudmunds_ (p. 155) and _On the Cliffs_ (p. 308); and G. J. Pinwell one, _The Pastor and the Landgrave_ (p. 631); J. W North's _Luther's Gardener_ (p. 99) is a curious drawing to a curious poem; W. Small, with _Eldorado_ (p. 15), _Dorette_ (p. 379), _The Gift of Clunnog Vawr_ (p. 463), _The Prize Maiden_ (pp. 491, 519, 560), and _Tranquillity_ (p. 575), shows more and more that strong personality which by and by influenced black and white art, so that men of the seventies are far more disciples of Small than even were the men of the sixties of Millais. M. E. Edwards's _Avice and her Lover_ (p. 141); six by Basil Bradley (pp. 140, 252, 279, 532, 603, and 659), Charles Green's _Kunegunda_ (p.