Of another good man, Mr. C. J. Watson, I have not enough to judge him at my ease; but he is a sterling etcher, distinctly gifted, and without artifice and trick. An actually imaginative vision one must not perhaps ask of him, but mental flexibility--can he but cultivate it--may enable him to go far. ‘Profil de Jeune Fille,’ a rare dry-point by Paul Helleu, has, it seems to me, like much of the work by that most modern of Parisian pastellists and etchers, a delightful spontaneity and force and freedom. It is an inevitable _chef-d’œuvre_--the greatest, perhaps, of a facile and exquisite master. My gossip stops. Grant me only the grace of one more line, to avow the satisfaction with which, even after having enjoyed the companionship of at least some little work that is admittedly classic, I can look upon the prints of Mr. Charles Holroyd, a young etcher of our latest day. In them so much of what is generally, and often even rightly, seductive, is frankly abandoned, that they may keep unimpaired at least the distinction and reticence which are the very soul of Style. (_Art Journal_, January and March 1894.) ANNE OLDFIELD ‘Mrs. Oldfield, the celebrated comedian,’ is the title inscribed by a contemporary--who knew how the lady should be spoken of--upon the copper which Edward Fisher engraved in mezzotint from the picture by Richardson. A photogravure reproduction from this rare, desirable print--which shows the lissome grace and flexible charm of a young woman who enchanted the town, and who was the delight of Mr. Mainwaring before she was the delight of General Churchill--forms the frontispiece to the slight and gossipy and unscientific, but by no means disagreeable volume which Mr. Robins has compiled--we cannot say written--about the actress whom he dubs familiarly ‘Nance.’ A cheaper reproduction of another portrait of her--the original also by Richardson--is to be found upon a later page. In both portraits she is represented _in propria persona_, of which we need not complain, but which it is expedient to chronicle, inasmuch as such portraiture throws no direct illumination upon the achievements of her art. Deprived of any such assistance as might well have been given, at all events had the compiler of the volume been dealing with a comedian of later time--with Garrick, say, whose Abel Drugger is known to us by the canvas of Zoffany; with Siddons, who not only as the ‘Tragic Muse’ reveals the characteristics of her power; or even with Mrs. Abington, whose performance as Miss Prue in _Love for Love_ we seem to witness by dint of familiarity with Sir Joshua’s picture--we are thrown back entirely, for our acquaintance with Mrs. Oldfield, upon the written records produced for our survey.