A very interesting experiment survives in the illustration to Watts's _Divine and Moral Songs_ (Nisbet, 1865). This book, edited by H. Fitzcock, the enthusiastic promoter of graphotype, enlisted the services of notable artists, whose tentative efforts, in the first substitute for wood-engraving that attained any commercial recognition, make the otherwise tedious volume a treasure-trove. The Du Maurier on page 14, the J. D. Watson (p. 22), T. Morten (p. 43), Holman Hunt (p. 49), M. E. Edwards (p. 62), C. Green (p. 9), and W. Cave Thomas (p. 75), are all worth study. A not very important drawing, _The Moon Shines Full_, by Dr. C. Heilbuth (p. 3), is a very successful effort to rival the effect of wood-engraving by mechanical means. The titles of the poems come with most grotesque effect beneath the drawings. An artist in knickerbockers, by Du Maurier, entitled 'The excellency of the Bible,' for instance, is apt to raise a ribald laugh; and some of the Calvinistic rhymes and unpleasant theology of the good old doctor are strangely ill-matched with these experiments in a medium which evidently interested the draughtsman far more than the songs which laid so heavy a burden on the little people of a century ago. _Legends and Lyrics_, by A. A. Procter (Bell and Daldy, 1865), is another quarto edition of a popular poet, but here, in place of the usual hundred Birket Fosters, Gilberts, and the rest, we have but nineteen engravings; but they are all full pages. Charles Keene's two subjects are _The Settlers_ and _Rest_ (a night bivouac of soldiers); John Tenniel with _A Legend of Bregenz_, and Du Maurier with _A Legend of Provence_ and _The Requital_, also represent the _Punch_ contingent. The others are by W. T. C. Dobson, A. R. A., L. Frolich, T. Morten, G. H. Thomas, Samuel Palmer, J. D. Watson, W. P. Burton, J. M. Carrick, M. E. Edwards, and William H. Millais; all engraved by Horace Harral, who cannot be congratulated upon his rendering of some blocks. A very charming set of drawings by J. E. Millais will be found in Henry Leslie's _Little Songs for me to sing_ (Cassell, undated). The subjects, seven in number, are slightly executed studies of childhood by a master-hand at the work. The first volume of Cassell's _Shakespeare_, which contains a large number of drawings by H. C. Selous, was issued this year. [Illustration: G. J. PINWELL 'WAYSIDE POESIES' THE LITTLE CALF] [Illustration: FREDERICK WALKER 'WAYSIDE POESIES' THE BIT O' GARDEN] A fine collection of reprinted illustrations is _Pictures of Society_ (Sampson Low, 1866); its blocks are taken from Mr. James Hogg's publications, _London Society_ and _The Churchman's Family Magazine_, and include the fine Sandys, _The Waiting Time_, and M. J. Lawless's _Silent Chamber_, both reproduced here by his permission. It is a scarce but very interesting, if unequal, book.