array of names, there is no drawing of more than average interest in the volume, except perhaps _To-morrow_ (p. 206), by F. R. Pickersgill, which is capitally engraved by Dalziel and much broader in its style than the rest. _Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ (David Bogue, 1854) appears to be the earliest English illustrated edition of any importance of a volume that has been frequently illustrated since. This book is uniform with the _Poetical Works of John Milton_ with 120 engravings by Thompson, Williams, etc., from drawings by W. Harvey, _The Works of William Cowper_ with seventy-five illustrations engraved by J. Orrin Smith from drawings by John Gilbert; Thomson's _Seasons_ with illustrations 'drawn and engraved by Samuel Williams,' and _Beattie and Collins' Poems_ with engravings by the same hand from designs by John Absolon. The title-page of the Longfellow says it is illustrated by 'Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, etc.' It is odd to find the not very elegant, 'etc.' stands for John Gilbert and E. Wehnert, also to note that the engravers have in each of the above volumes taken precedence of the draughtsman. Except that we miss the pre-Raphaelite group for which we prize the Moxon _Tennyson_ to-day, the ideal of these books is very nearly the same as of that volume. This edition of Longfellow must not be confused with another, a quarto, issued the following year (Routledge, 1855), 'with over one hundred designs drawn by John Gilbert and engraved by the brothers Dalziel.' This notable instance of the variety and inventive power of the artist also shows (in the night pieces especially, pp. 13, 360), that the engraver was trying to advance in the direction of 'tone' and atmospheric effect; and endeavouring to give the effect of a 'wash' rather than of a line drawing or the imitation of a steel engraving. This tendency, which was not the chief purpose of the work of the sixties, in the seventies carried the technicalities of the craft to its higher achievements, or, as some enthusiasts prefer to regard it, to its utter ruin, so that the photographic process-block could beat it on its own ground. But these opposite views have been threshed out often enough without bringing the parties concerned nearer together to encourage a new attempt to reconcile the opposing factions. The Longfellow of 1855 was reissued with the addition of _Hiawatha_ in 1856. Another edition of _Hiawatha_, illustrated by G. H. Thomas, issued about this time, contains some of his best work.