1871 is memorable for three of Arthur Hughes's designs, made for a projected illustrated edition of Tennyson's _Loves of the Wrens_, a scheme abandoned at the author's wish; the three drawings cut down from their original size, _Fly Little Letter_ (p. 33), _The Mist and the Rain_ (p. 113), and _Sun Comes, Moon Comes_ (p. 183), are especially dear to collectors of Mr. Hughes's work, which appeared here with the lyrics set to Sir Arthur Sullivan's music; another by the same artist, _The Mother and the Angel_ (p. 648), is also worth noting. One Boyd Houghton, _Baraduree Justice_ (p. 464), twenty-one drawings by W. Small to Katharine Saunders, _The High Mills_, and one by the same artist to _An Unfinished Song_ (p. 641) are in this volume, besides four by Pinwell, _Aid to the Sick_ (p. 40), _The Devil's Boots_ (p. 217), _Toddy's Legacy_ (p. 336), and _Shall we ever meet again?_ (p. 817). Without discussing the remaining years of this still flourishing monthly one can hardly omit mention of the volume for 1878, in which William Black's _Macleod of Dare_ is illustrated by G. H. Boughton, R.A., J. Pettie, R.A., P. Graham, R.A., W. Q. Orchardson, R.A., and John Everett Millais, R.A., a group which recalls the glories of its early issues. LONDON SOCIETY This popular illustrated shilling magazine, started in February 1862 under the editorship of Mr. James Hogg, has not received so far its due share of appreciation from the few who have studied the publications of the sixties. Yet its comparative neglect is easily accounted for. It contains, no doubt, much good work--some, indeed, worthy to be placed in the first rank. But it also includes a good deal that, if tolerable when the momentary fashions it depicted were not ludicrous, appears now merely commonplace and absurd. A great artist--Millais especially--could introduce the crinoline and the Dundreary whiskers, so that even to-day their ugliness does not repel you. But less accomplished draughtsmen, who followed slavishly the inelegant mode of the sixties, now stand revealed as merely journalists. Journalism, useful and honourable as its work may be, rarely has lasting qualities which bear revival. Aiming as it did to be a 'smart' and topical magazine, with the mood of the hour reflected in its pages, it remains a document not without interest to the social historian. Amid its purely ephemeral contents there are quite enough excellent drawings to ensure its preservation in any representative collection of English illustrations. [Illustration: M. J. LAWLESS 'LONDON SOCIETY' VOL. IV. p. 554 HONEYDEW] [Illustration: J. D. WATSON 'LONDON SOCIETY' 1866, p. 35 TOO LATE] [Illustration: J. D. WATSON 'LONDON SOCIETY,' VOL. I. p. 150 ASH WEDNESDAY]