Other series of the works of 'standard poets,' as they were called, all resplendent in gold and colours, and more or less well illustrated, were issued by Messrs. Routledge, Nimmo, Warne, Cassell, Moxon, and others, beginning in the fifties. Here and there a volume has interest, but one suspects that many of the plates had done duty before, and those which had not are not always of great merit; as, for instance, the drawings by W. B. Scott to the poetical works of L. E. L. (Routledge). In these various books will be found, _inter alia_, examples of Sir John Gilbert, Birket Foster, E. H. Corbould, W. Small, and Keeley Halswelle. _Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library_ is the title of a series of novels by eminent hands in single volumes, each containing a frontispiece engraved on steel. That to _Christian's Mistake_ is by Frederick Sandys, engraved by John Saddler. _John Halifax_, _Nothing New_, _The Valley of a Hundred Fires_, and _Les Misérables_, each have a drawing by Millais, also engraved by John Saddler. In _Studies from Life_ Holman Hunt is the draughtsman and Joseph Brown the engraver. _No Church_, _Grandmother's Money_, and _A Noble Life_, contain frontispieces by Tenniel, _Barbara's History_, one by J. D. Watson, and _Adèle_, a fine design by John Gilbert. Others by Leech and Edward Hughes are not particularly interesting. The steel engraving bestowed upon most of these obliterated all character from the designs, and superseded the artist's touch by hard unsympathetic details; but, all the same, compositions by men of such eminence deserve mention. With 1870 the end of our subject is reached; it is the year of _Edwin Drood_, which established S. L. Fildes's position as an illustrator of the first rank; it also has a pleasant book of quasi-mediæval work, _Mores Ridicula_, by J. E. Rogers (Macmillan), (followed later by _Ridicula Rediviva_ and _The Fairy Book_, by the author of _John Halifax_, with coloured designs by the same artist), of which an enthusiastic critic wrote: 'Worthy to be hung in the Royal Academy side by side with Rossetti, Sandys, Barnes, and Millais'; Whymper's _Scrambles on the Alps_, a book greatly prized by collectors, with drawings by Whymper and J. Mahoney; _The Cycle of Life_ (S.P.C.K.); and _Episodes of Fiction_ (Nimmo, 1870) containing twenty-eight designs by R. Paterson, after C. Green, C. J. Staniland, P. Skelton, F. Barnard, Harrison Weir, and others. _Novello's National Nursery Rhymes_, by J. W. Elliott, published in 1871, belongs to the sixties by intrinsic right. It includes two delightful drawings by A. Boyd Houghton--one of which, _Tom the Piper's Son_ (owned by Mr. Pennell), has been reproduced from the original by photogravure in Mr. Laurence Housman's monograph--and many by H. S. Marks, W. Small, J. Mahoney, G. J. Pinwell, W. J. Wiegand, Arthur Hughes, T. and E. Dalziel, and others.