The _Choice Series_ of selections from the poets, published by Messrs. Sampson Low and Co., include several volumes issued some time before they were included as part of this series. The ideal of all is far more akin to that of the early fifties--when the original editions of several of these were first issued--than to that of the sixties. They include Bloomfield's _Farmer's Boy_ (1857), Campbell's _Pleasures of Hope_ (1855), Coleridge's _Ancient Mariner_ (1857), Goldsmith's _Deserted Village_ and _Vicar of Wakefield_, Gray's _Elegy_ (1853), Keats's _Eve of St. Agnes_, Milton's _L'Allegro_, Warton's _The Hermit_, Wordsworth's _Pastoral Poems_, and Rogers's _Pleasures of Memory_ (1864). All the volumes, but the last, have wood-engravings by various hands after drawings by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, Gilbert and others; but in the _Pleasures of Memory_ 'the large illustrations' are produced by a new method without the aid of an engraver, and some little indulgence is asked for them on the plea of the inexperience of the artists in this process. 'The drawing is made' (to continue the quotation) 'with an etching needle, or any suitable point, upon a glass plate spread with collodion. It is then photographed [? printed] upon a prepared surface of wax, and from this an electrotype is formed in relief which is printed with the type.' Samuel Palmer, J. D. Watson, Charles Green, and others are the artists to whom this reference applies, and the result, if not better than the best contemporary engraving, is certainly full of interest to-day. The _Golden Treasury_ Series (Macmillan and Co.) contains, in each volume, a vignette engraved on steel by Jeens, after drawings by J. E. Millais, T. Woolner, W. Holman Hunt, Sir Noel Paton, Arthur Hughes, etc.