In the first volume for 1862 we find a beautiful Lawless, _Beauty's Toilet_ (p. 265), spoilt by its engraving, the texture of the flesh being singularly coarse and ineffectual. Fred Walker, in _The Drawing-room, 'Paris'_ (i. p. 401), is seen in the unusual and not very captivating mood of a 'society' draughtsman. _Ash Wednesday_ (p. 150), by J. D. Watson, is a singularly fine example of an artist whose work, the more you come across it, surprises you by its sustained power. The frontispiece _Spring Days_ and _A Romance_ and _A Curacy_ (p. 386), are his also. Other illustrations by T. Morten, H. Sanderson, C. H. Bennett, Adelaide Claxton, Julian Portch, and F. R. Pickersgill, R.A., call for no special comment. In the second volume there are two drawings by Lawless, _First Night at the Seaside_ (p. 220) and _A Box on the Ear_ (p. 382); several by Du Maurier, one _A Kettledrum_ (p. 203), peculiarly typical of his society manner; others, _Refrezzment_ (p. 110), _Snowdon_ (p. 481), _Oh sing again_ (p. 433), _Jewels_ (p. 105), and a _Mirror Scene_ (p. 107), which reveal the cosmopolitan student of nature outside the artificial, if admirable, restrictions of 'good form.' _The Border Witch_ (p. 181), by J. E. Millais, A.R.A., is one of the very few examples by the great illustrator in this periodical. J. D. Watson, in _Moonlight on the Beach_ (p. 333), _Married_[2] (p. 449), _A Summer Eve_ (p. 162), _On the Coast_ (p. 321), _Holiday Life_ (p. 339), and _How I gained a Wife_ (p. 551), again surprises you, with regret his admirable work has yet not received fuller appreciation by the public. Walter Crane contributes some society pictures which reveal the admirable decorator in an unusual, and, to be candid, unattractive aspect. _Kensington Gardens_ (p. 172), _A London Carnival_ (p. 79), and _Which is Fairest?_ (p. 242), are interesting as the work of a youth, but betray little evidence of his future power. Robert Barnes, in _Dreaming Love and Waiting Duty_ (p. 564), shows how early in his career he reached the level which he maintained so admirably. A. Boyd Houghton's _Finding a Relic_ (p. 89) is a good if not typical specimen of his work. The designs by E. J. Poynter, _Tip Cat_ (p. 321), _I can't thmoke a pipe_ (p. 318), and _Lord Dundreary_ (pp. 308, 472), are singularly unlike the usual work of the accomplished author of _Israel in Egypt_. To these one must add the names of C. H. Bennett (_Beadles_, three), W. M'Connell, C. A. Doyle, George H. Thomas, E. K. Johnson, F. J. Skill, F. Claxton, H. Sanderson, and A. W. Cooper. So that 1862 offers, at least, a goodly list of artists, and quite enough first-rate work to make the volumes worth preserving.