A volume of even greater interest is _Millais's Collected Illustrations_ (Strahan, 1866). The eighty drawings on wood include many subjects originally published in _Lays of the Holy Land_, _Once a Week_, _Tennyson's Poems_, _Good Words_, _Orley Farm_, etc. etc. Copies in good condition are not often in the market; but it should be the blue riband of every collector, for the blocks here receive more careful printing than that allowed by the exigencies of their ordinary publication, and, free from any gold border, set on a large and not too shiny page, they tell out as well as one could hope to find them. As you linger over its pages you miss many favourites, for it is by no means an exhaustive collection even from the sources mentioned; but it is representative and full of superb work, interspersed though it be with the less fine things done while the great draughtsman was still hampered by the conventions of Mulready and Maclise. _Idyllic Pictures_ (Cassell, 1867) is another reprinted collection, this time selected entirely from one magazine, _The Quiver_. It contains a fine Sandys here called _October_, elsewhere _The Advent of Winter_, whereof the artist complained bitterly of the 'cutting.' In March 1884, the _Art Journal_ contained a very excellent paper on 'Frederick Sandys,' by J. M. Gray, where the original drawing for this subject is reproduced by process. The more important things in _Idyllic Pictures_ are: G. J. Pinwell's _Faded Flowers_ (p. 13), _Sailor's Valentine_ (p. 47), _The Angel's Song_ (p. 73), _The Organ-man_ (p. 121), and _Straight On_ (p. 169); A. Boyd Houghton's _Wee Rose Mary_ (p. 89), _St. Martin_ (p. 181), and _Sowing and Reaping_ (p. 189); Paul Gray's _Cousin Lucy_ (_Frontispiece_), _A Reverie_ (p. 17), _By the Dead_ (p. 21), _Mary's Wedding-day_ (p. 141), and _The Holy Light_ (p. 193); W. Small's _Between the Cliffs_ (p. 29), _My Ariel_ (p. 43), _A Retrospect_ (p. 85), _Babble_ (p. 109), and _Church Bells_ (p. 173); T. Morten's _Izaak Walton_ (p. 69) and _Hassan_ (p. 81); M. E. Edwards's _A Lullaby_ (p. 49), _Seeing Granny_ (p. 117), and _Unrequited_ (p. 129), with others by the artists already named, and R. Barnes, H. Cameron, R. P. Leitch, C. J. Staniland, and G. H. Thomas.