_H. Leslie's Musical Annual_ (Cassell, 1870) contains a fine drawing, _The Boatswain's Leap_, by G. J. Pinwell, and a steel engraving, _A Reverie_, after Millais, which was re-issued in _The Magazine of Art_, September 1896. _Pictures from English Literature_ (Cassell) is an excuse for publishing twenty full-page engravings after elaborate drawings by Du Maurier, S. L. Fildes, W. Small, J. D. Watson, W. Cave Thomas, etc. etc. This anthology, with a somewhat heterogeneous collection of drawings, seems to be the last genuine survivor of the old Christmas gift-books, which is lineally connected with the masterpieces of its kind. Soon after the inevitable anthology of poems reappeared, in humbler pamphlet shape, as a birthday souvenir, or a Christmas card, embellished with chromo-lithographs, as it had already been allied with photographic silver-prints; but it is always the accident of the artists chosen which imparts permanent interest to the otherwise feeble object; whether it take the shape of a drawing-room table-book, gaudy, costly, and dull, or of a little booklet, it is a thing of no vital interest, unless by chance its pictures are the work of really powerful artists. The decadence of a vigorous movement is never a pleasant subject to record in detail. Fortunately, although the king died, the king lived almost immediately, and _The Graphic_, with its new ideals and new artists, quickly established a convention of its own, which is no less interesting. If it does not seem, so far as we can estimate, to have numbered among its articles men who are worthy in all respects to be placed by Rossetti, Millais, Sandys, Houghton, Pinwell, Fred Walker, and the rest of the typical heroes of the sixties, yet in its own way it is a worthy beginning of a new epoch. Before quitting our period, however, a certain aftermath of the rich harvest must not be forgotten; and this, despite the comparatively few items it contains, may be placed in a chapter by itself. [Illustration: FREDERICK SANDYS 'ONCE A WEEK' VOL. VII. p. 266 DEATH OF KING WARWOLF] CHAPTER X: THE AFTERMATH, A FEW BELATED VOLUMES That Thornbury's _Legendary Ballads_ (dated 1876) should be regarded as a most important volume in a collection of the 'sixties' is not odd, when you find that its eighty-one illustrations were reprinted from _Once a Week_. Many of the drawings were republished in this book, with the poem they originally illustrated; others, however, were joined to quite different text. If the memories of those living are to be trusted, not a few of the artists concerned were extremely annoyed to find their designs applied to new purposes. To take a single instance, the Sandys design to _King Warwolf_ re-accompanied the poem itself, but the drawing by John Lawson, which is herein supposed to illustrate the lines, 'And then there came a great red glare That seemed to crimson fitfully The whole broad Heaven.'