was especially so struck by it, that he advised its author to work out the idea in full size. The three years' labour devoted to the task, the failures by the way, and its ultimate triumphant success, both here and in Paris, are too well known to need recapitulation. A replica was commissioned for the Copenhagen Gallery, and probably no work of its accomplished author did more to win him the appreciation of French and German artists. [Illustration: BRONZE STATUE: AN ATHLETE STRUGGLING WITH A PYTHON (1877)] [Illustration: BRONZE STATUE: AN ATHLETE STRUGGLING WITH A PYTHON (1877)] [Illustration: STUDY IN CLAY FOR "CYMON"] [Illustration: STUDY IN CLAY FOR "THE SLUGGARD"] [Illustration: STUDY IN CLAY FOR "PERSEUS"] [Illustration: STUDY IN CLAY FOR "ANDROMEDA"] In this brief mention of Lord Leighton's achievements in sculpture, the medal commemorating the Jubilee of Queen Victoria, a study for which is reproduced at p. 130, must not be overlooked. Although to those who have not followed closely the splendid period of English illustration which may be said to have reached its zenith at the time when Dalziel's "Bible Gallery" was published, it may be a surprise to find "Frederic Leighton" figuring as an illustrator, yet the nine compositions in that book are by no means his sole contribution to the art of black and white. For each instalment of "Romola," as it ran through the pages of the "Cornhill Magazine," the artist contributed a full page drawing, and an initial letter. The twenty-four full pages were afterwards reprinted in "The Cornhill Gallery" (Smith and Elder, 1865). These are most notable works, even when measured by the standard of their contemporaries. The same magazine contains two other works from his pen, one illustrating a poem, "The great God Pan," by Mrs. Browning, and another illustrating a story by Mrs. Sartoris, entitled "A Week in a French Country House." These, and the nine compositions in the "Bible Gallery" (the pictures from which have lately been re-issued in a popular form by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge) exhaust the list of those which can be traced. As four of the magnificent designs are reproduced here, it would be superfluous to describe them; the titles of the five others are: _Abram and the Angel_, _Eliezer and Rebekah_, _Death of the First Born_, _The Spies' Escape_, and _Samson at the Mill_.