In another criticism upon this year's books we find: 'For the pre-Raphaelite draughtsman and the pre-Bewick artist, who love scratchy lines without colour, blocks which look like spoilt etchings, and the first "proofs" of artists' work untouched by the engraver, nothing can be better.' It was the year of Doré's _Tennyson_, and Doré's _Tupper_, a year when the fine harvests were nearly at an end, when a new order of things was close at hand, and the advent of _The Graphic_ should set the final seal to the work of the sixties and inaugurate a new school. But, although the Christmas of 1866 saw the ingathering of the most fertile harvest, the next three years must be not overlooked. In 1867 _Lucile_, with Du Maurier's designs, carries on the record; and _North Coast and other Poems_, by Robert Buchanan (Routledge, 1868), nobly maintains the tradition of Dalziels. It contains fifty-three drawings: thirteen by Houghton, six by Pinwell, two by W. Small, one by J. B. Zwecker, three by J. Wolf, twenty-five by T. and three by E. Dalziel, and the engraving is at their best level, the printing unusually good. [Illustration: T. MORTEN 'GULLIVER'S TRAVELS' CASSELL GULLIVER IN LILLIPUT] [Illustration: T. MORTEN 'GULLIVER'S TRAVELS' CASSELL THE LAPUTIANS] _Golden Thoughts from Golden Fountains_ (Warne, 1867) is another profusely illustrated anthology, on the lines of those which preceded it. The first edition was printed in sepia throughout, but the later editions printed in black do more justice to the blocks. In it we find seventy-three excellent designs by A. Boyd Houghton, G. J. Pinwell, W. Small, J. Lawson, W. P. Burton, G. Dalziel, T. Dalziel, and others; if the book, as a whole, cannot be placed among the best of its class, yet all the same it comprises some admirable work. The _Savage Club Papers_, 1867 (Tinsley), has also a galaxy of stars in its list of illustrators, but their sparkle is intermittent and feeble. True that Du Maurier, A. Boyd Houghton, J. D. Watson, and a host of others drew, and Dalziels, Swain, Harral, and the rest engraved their work; but all the same it is but an ephemeral book. _Krilof and His Fables_ (Strahan, 1867) enshrines some delightful, if slight, Houghtons, and many spirited animal drawings by Zwecker. Wood's _Bible Animals_ is also rich in fine zoological pictures. The _Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity_ (Nisbet, 1867) would be notable if only for its three designs by Albert Moore, who appears here as an illustrator, probably the only time he ever contributed to any publication. Notwithstanding two or three powerful and fantastic drawings by W. Small, the rest are a very mixed lot, conceived in all sorts of manners. _The Illustrated Book of Sacred Poems_ (Cassell, undated) is a big anthology, with a silver-print photograph by way of frontispiece. It contains a rather fine composition, _Side by Side_ (p. 17), with no signature or other means of identification. W. Small (p. 21), J. D.