Other noteworthy volumes of 1858-9 are _Merrie Days of England, Sketches of Olden Times_, illustrated by twenty drawings by Birket Foster, G. Thomas, E. Corbould, and others; _The Scouring of the White Horse_, with designs by Richard Doyle (Macmillan), his Foreign Tour of _Brown, Jones, and Robinson_, and the same artist's _Manners and Customs of the English_, all then placed in the first rank by most excellent critics; _Favourite English Poems of the last two Centuries_, illustrated by Birket Foster, Cope, Creswick, and the rest; Wordsworth's _White Doe of Rylstone_ (Longmans), also illustrated by Birket Foster and H. N. Humphreys; _Childe Harold_, with many designs by Percival Skelton and others; Blair's _Grave_, illustrated by Tenniel (A. and C. Black); Milton's _Comus_ (Routledge, 1858), with illustrations by Pickersgill, B. Foster, H. Weir, etc.; and C. H. Bennett's _Proverbs with Pictures_ (Chapman and Hall). _Thomas Moore's Poems_ (Longmans, 1858); _Child's Play_, by E. V. B., appeared also about this time. Krummacher's _Parables_, with forty illustrations by J. R. Clayton (Bohn's Library, 1858), is another unfamiliar book likely to be overlooked, although it contains good work of its sort; inspired a little by German design possibly, but including some admirable drawings, those for instance on pages 147 and 347. _The Shipwreck_, by Robert Falconer, illustrated by Birket Foster (Edinburgh, Black, 1858), contains thirty drawings, some of them charmingly engraved by W. T. Green, Dalziel Brothers, and Edward Evans in 'the Turner vignette' manner; they are delightful of their kind. In 1859 there seems to be a falling off, which can hardly be traced to the starting of _Once a Week_ in July, for Christmas books--and nearly all the best illustrated volumes fall into that category--are prepared long before midsummer. C. H. Bennett's illustrated Bunyan's _Pilgrim Progress_ (Longmans) is one of the best of the year's output. A survival of an older type is _A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads_, illustrated by C. W. Cope, J. C. Horsley, A. Solomon, S. Palmer, and others (Kent), which, but for the publisher's announcement, might well be regarded as a reprint of a book at least ten years earlier; but its peculiar method was unique at that time, and rarely employed since, although but lately revived now for half-tone blocks. It consists in a double printing, black upon a previous printing in grey, not solid, but with the 'lights' carefully taken out, so that the whole looks like a drawing on grey paper heightened by white chalk. Whether the effect might be good on ordinary paper, these impressions on a shiny cream surface, set in gold borders, are not captivating.