Watson (pp. 69, 89, 105, 200, 209), M. E. Edwards, H. C. Selous, J. W. North, and many others are represented; but the engravers, for the most part, cannot be congratulated upon their interpretation of the artists' designs. Other books worth mention are: _The Mirage of Life_, with twenty-nine characteristic illustrations by John Tenniel (Religious Tract Society); _The Story without an End_, illustrated by E. V. B.; _Cassell's Illustrated Readings_, two volumes with a mass of pictures of unequal merit, but the omnivorous collector will keep them for the sake of designs by F. Barnard, J. D. Watson, J. Mahoney, W. Small, S. L. Fildes, and many another typical artist of the sixties, in spite of the unsatisfactory blocks; _Fairy Tales_, by Mark Lemon, illustrated by C. H. Bennett and Richard Doyle; _Pupils of St. John the Divine_, illustrated by E. Armitage (Macmillan); _Puck on Pegasus_ (the new and enlarged edition); _Poetry of Nature_, illustrated by Harrison Weir; and _Original Poems_ by J. and E. Taylor (Routledge, 1868), with a large number of designs by R. Barnes, A. W. Bayes, etc. With 1868 the end is near; the few books of real merit which bear its date were almost all issued in the autumn of the previous year. _The Savage Club Papers_, 1868, is a book not worth detailed comment; _Five Days' Entertainment at Wentworth Grange_, by F. T. Palgrave (Macmillan), contains some charming designs by Arthur Hughes; _Stories from Memel_, illustrated by Walter Crane (W. Hunt and Co.), is a pleasant book of the year; and, about this time, other work by the same artist appeared in _The Merrie Heart_ (Cassell). _King Gab's Story Bag_ (Cassell), _The Magic of Kindness_ (Cassell), and other children's books I have been unable to trace, nor the _Poetry of Nature_, edited by J. Cundall. _Lyra Germanica_ (Longmans), a second anthology of hymns translated from the German, contains three illustrations by Ford Madox Brown, _At the Sepulchre_, _The Sower_, and _Abraham_, six by Edward Armitage, R.A., and many headpieces and other decorations by John Leighton, which should not be undervalued because the taste of to-day is in favour of a bolder style, and dislikes imitation Gothic detail. Of their sort they are excellent, and may be placed among the earliest modern attempts to decorate a page, with some show of consistency of treatment. Compared with the so-called 'rustic' borders of earlier efforts, they at once assume a certain importance. The binding is similar to that upon the first series.