Scott's _Lady of the Lake_, illustrated by John Gilbert, appeared in 1856. The other volumes, _Marmion_, the _Lady of the Lake_, and the _Lay of the Last Minstrel_, appear to have been published previously; but to ascertain their exact date of issue, the three bulky volumes of the British Museum catalogue devoted to 'Scott (Walter)' can hardly be faced with a light heart. This year saw an edition of Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_ with outline drawings by J. R. Clayton, who is sometimes styled 'J. R.,' and sometimes 'John.' An illustrated guinea edition of a once popular 'goody' book, _Ministering Children_, with designs by Birket Foster and H. Le Jeune (Nisbet, 1856), an edition of _Edgar Allan Poe's Works_, illustrated by E. H. Wehnert and others (Addey, 1856); Coleridge's _Ancient Mariner_, with pictures by Birket Foster, A. Duncan, and E. H. Wehnert, are also of this year, to which belongs, although it is post-dated, Pollok's _Course of Time_ (W. Blackwood, 1857), a book containing fifty fine illustrations by Birket Foster, John Tenniel, and J. R. Clayton, engraved by Edward Evans, Dalziel Brothers, H. N. Woods, and John Green. A block by Dalziel, after Clayton, on page 19, shows a good example of the white line, used horizontally, for the modelling of flesh, somewhat in the way, as Pannemaker employed it so effectively in many of Gustave Doré's illustrations years after. The twenty-seven Birket Fosters are full of the special charm that his work possesses, and show once again how a great artist may employ a method, which, merely 'pretty' in inferior hands, has something of greatness when he touches it.