On the whole, these illustrations decidedly pre-suppose real artistic culture in the public. They do not condescend in any way to what might be guessed at as the popular taste. I notice that the Editor and Publishers have a tendency to look to young men of ability for assistance in their enterprise, though they accept the criticism of those who now belong to a preceding generation. Portrait of Henry James By John S. Sargent, A.R.A. [Illustration: Portrait of Henry James] Dreams By Ronald Campbell Macfie "In the first dream that comes with the first sleep I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart" Unworthy! yea, So high thou art above me I hardly dare to love thee, But kneel and lay All homage and all worship at thy feet, O lady sweet! Yet dreams are strong: Their wordless wish suffices To win them Paradises Of sun and song. Delight our waking life can never know The dreams bestow. And in a dream, Dupe of its bold beguiling, I watch thy blue eyes smiling; I see them gleam With love the waking moments have forbidden, And veiled and hidden. O brave deceit! In dreams thy glad eyes glisten, In dreams I lie and listen Thy bosom beat, Hiving hot lips among thy temple-hair, O lady fair! And tho' I live, Dreaming in such fair fashion, I think, in thy compassion, Thou wilt forgive, Since I but _dream_, and since my heart will ache When I awake. Madame Réjane By Dauphin Meunier A fabulous being, in an everyday human form; a face, not beautiful, scarcely even pretty, which looks upon the world with an air at once ironical and sympathetic; a brow that grows broader or narrower according to the capricious invasions of her aureole of hair; an odd little nose, perked heavenward; two roguish eyes, now blue, now black; the rude accents of a street-girl, suddenly changing to the well-bred murmuring of a great lady; abrupt, abundant gestures, eloquently finishing half-spoken sentences; a supple neck--a slender, opulent figure--a dainty foot, that scarcely touches the earth and yet can fly amazingly near the ceiling; lips, nervous, sensuous, trembling, curling; a frock, simple or sumptuous, bought at a bargain or created by a Court-dressmaker, which expresses, moulds, completes, and sometimes almost unveils the marvellous creature it envelops; a gay, a grave demeanour; grace, wit, sweetness, tartness; frivolity and earnestness, tenderness and indifference; beauty without beauty, immorality without evil: a nothing capable of everything: such is Woman at Paris: such is the Parisienne: and Madame Réjane is the Parisienne, is all Parisiennes, incarnated.