drawings here show his strong individuality, but I wish it had been possible to represent his high-water mark in the beautiful designs for the Book of Job. There are no more facile and prolific illustrators than Mr. Hugh Thomson and Messrs. C. E. and H. M. Brock, and all of them are most at home in the humours of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. So we have Mr. Thomson sympathetically illustrating Jane Austen and Mrs. Gaskell, as well as picturesque highways and byways; while Mr. C. E. Brock shows us what pictorial suggestion he has found in the “Essays of Elia,” a subject, by the way, that might supply an essay in itself; and Mr. H. M. Brock’s multifarious illustration is represented also by clever designs for essays, Leigh Hunt’s and Douglas Jerrold’s. Humorous character, besides, we get from Mr. Frank Reynolds in his vivacious “Pictures of Paris,” and his delightful “Pickwick” illustration in colour. The animal whimsicalities of Mr. Stewart Orr, and Mr. Carton Moore Park’s decorative suggestions of beast and bird life, are also illustrative examples we would not be without. The Irish character-studies of Mr. Jack B. Yeats have an interest all their own; they have life and atmosphere. Light and atmosphere distinguish Mr. D. Y. Cameron’s two great little landscape drawings for “The Tomb of Burns.” One does not otherwise think of the great etcher as an illustrator. Mr. Frank Brangwyn is entirely himself in the two virile pen-and-ink drawings for “The Book of Bridges,” and the colour illustration to Kinglake’s “Eöthen.” Very charming, and worthy of their theme, are Mr. F. L. Griggs’s illustrations to “The Sensitive Plant”; nor is this accomplished artist less delightful in his designs for “The Chronicles of a Cornish Garden.” But, then, how could he be with such a title to inspire him? Mr. Edmund H. New is another artist of distinctive style who never fails us, and in the “Compleat Angler” and White’s “Selborne” he had, of course, subjects after his heart. The fanciful landscape is Mr. W. T. Horton’s design; peaceful Bruges is Mr. Charles Wade’s theme. FitzGerald’s “Omar” has suggested some quaintly fantastic designs by Miss Helen Sinclair; Mr. René Bull’s facile pen has busied itself with the “Arabian Nights”; while here also are characteristic drawings by Mr. F. H. Ball, Mr. Keith Henderson, Mr. Sydney R. Jones, Mr. Donald Maxwell, Mr. Harry Rountree, and Mr. Joseph Southall. [Illustration: MAXWELL ARMFIELD “THE SPOTTED STAG”--WOOD-ENGRAVING] [Illustration: MAXWELL ARMFIELD “GUINEA-FOWL”--WOOD-ENGRAVING] [Illustration: F. H. BALL “PRELUDE”] [Illustration: J. D. BATTEN “HASEN REJOINS HIS WIFE.” FROM “THE BOOK OF WONDER VOYAGES” (DAVID NUTT)] [Illustration: J. D. BATTEN “CIRCE AND MEDEA.” FROM “THE BOOK OF WONDER VOYAGES” (DAVID NUTT)] [Illustration: J. D. BATTEN ILLUSTRATION FOR “MORE ENGLISH FAIRY TALES” (DAVID NUTT)] [Illustration: J. D. BATTEN