The four Whistlers of _Once a Week_ are all here, absurdly renamed. There are twenty by M. J. Lawless, seven by T. Morten, ten by J. Lawson, one by A. Boyd Houghton, two by Fred Walker, eight by G. J. Pinwell, six by W. Small, three by J. Tenniel, three by F. Eltze, and one each by J. D. Watson, C. Keene, G. Du Maurier, Towneley Green, C. Green, T. R. Macquoid, P. Skelton, A. Fairfield, E. H. Corbould, and A. Rich. The book is well printed, and a treasure-house of good things, which appear to more advantage upon its 'toned paper' than in the pages of the periodical where they first saw daylight. The preface to _Dalziels' Bible Gallery_ is dated October 1880, so that the volume was probably issued for the season of 1880-81. As we have seen, the work was in active preparation in the early sixties. It contained sixty-nine blocks excellently printed upon an India tint. These include nine by the late Lord Leighton, P.R.A., three by G. F. Watts, R.A., five by F. R. Pickersgill, R.A., twelve by E. J. Poynter, R.A., three by E. Armitage, R.A., two by H. H. Armstead, R.A., one by Sir E. Burne-Jones, one by Holman Hunt, three by Ford Madox Brown, six by Simeon Solomon, two by A. Boyd Houghton, two by W. Small, one by E. F. Brewtnall, fourteen by T. Dalziel, one by E. Dalziel, two by A. Murch, and one by F. S. Walker, and one by Frederick Sandys. The praise lavished on these designs is amply justified if you regard them as a whole; but, turning over the pages critically after a long interval, there is a distinct sense of disillusion. At the time they seemed all masterpieces; sixteen years after they stand confessed as a very mixed group, some conscientious pot-boilers, others absolutely powerful and intensely individual. The book is monumental, both in its ambitious intention and in the fact that it commemorates a dead cause. It is easy to disparage the work of the engravers, but when we see what fine things owe their very existence to Messrs. Dalziels' enterprise, it is but just to pay due tribute to the firm, and to regret that so powerful an agency is no longer actively engaged in similar enterprises. [Illustration: EDWARD BURNE JONES DALZIELS' 'BIBLE GALLERY,' 1880 THE PARABLE OF THE BOILING POT] [Illustration: SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, P.R.A. DALZIELS' 'BIBLE GALLERY,' 1883 CAIN AND ABEL] [Illustration: SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, P.R.A. DALZIELS' 'BIBLE GALLERY,' 1880 MOSES VIEWING THE PROMISED LAND] [Illustration: SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, P.R.A. DALZIELS' 'BIBLE GALLERY,' 1880 ABRAM AND THE ANGEL]