Several books earlier in date, including De la Motte Fouqué's _Undine_, with eleven drawings by 'J. Tenniel, Junr.' (Burns, 1846), and _Sintram and his Companions_, with designs by H. S. Selous and a frontispiece after Dürer's _The Knight and Death_ need only be mentioned. The _Juvenile Verse and Picture Book_ (Burns, 1848), with many illustrations by Gilbert, Tenniel, 'R. Cruikshank,' Weigall, and W. B. Scott, which was reissued with altered text as _Gems of National Poetry_ (Warne, 1868), and _Æsop's Fables_ (Murray, 1848), with 100 illustrations by Tenniel, deserve a bare mention. Nor should _The 'Bon Gaultier' Ballads_ (Blackwood, 1849) be forgotten. The illustrations by Doyle, Leech, and Crowquill were enormously popular in their day, and although the style of humour which still keeps many of the ballads alive has been frequently imitated since, and rarely excelled, yet its drawings have often been equalled and surpassed, humorous although they are, of their sort. _The Salamandrine_, a poem by Charles Mackay, issued in a small quarto (Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853), with forty-six designs by John Gilbert, is one of the early volumes by the more fecund illustrators of the century. It is too late in the day to praise the veteran whose paintings are as familiar to frequenters of the Royal Academy now as were his drawings when the Great Exhibition entered a formal claim for the recognition of British Art. Honoured here and upon the Continent, it is needless to eulogise an artist whom all agree to admire. The prolific invention which never failed is not more evident in this book than in a hundred others decorated by his facile pencil, yet it reveals--as any one of the rest must equally--the powerful mastery of his art, and its limitations. Thomson's _Seasons_, illustrated by the Etching Club (1852), S. C. Hall's _Book of British Ballads_ (1852), an edition of _The Arabian Nights_, with 600 illustrations by W. Harvey (1852), and _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, with 100 drawings by George Thomas, can but be named in passing. Gray's _Elegy_, illustrated by 'B. Foster, G. Thomas, and a Lady,' (Sampson Low), _The Book of Celebrated Poems_, with eighty designs by Cope, Kenny Meadows, and others (Sampson Low), _The Vicar of Wakefield_, with drawings by George Thomas, _The Deserted Village_, illustrated by members of the Etching Club--Cope, T. Creswick, J. C. Horsley, F. Tayler, H. J. Townsend, C. Stenhouse, T. Webster, R.A., and R. Redgrave--all published early in the fifties--may also be dismissed without comment. About the same time the great mental sedative of the period--Tupper's _Proverbial Philosophy_ (Hatchard, 1854)--was reprinted in a stately quarto, with sixty-two illustrations by C. W. Cope, R.A., E. H. Corbould, Birket Foster, John Gilbert, J. C. Horsley, F. R. Pickersgill and others, engraved for the most part by 'Dalziel Bros.' and H. Vizetelly. The dull, uninspired text seems to have depressed the imagination of the artists. Despite the notable