In 1869 Wilfrid Lawson illustrates Whyte-Melville's _M. or N._, and has several other full-page drawings in his best vein (pp. 8, 48, 89, 128, 152, 232, 307, 467, 540); J. Mahoney is first met here with _Officers and Gentlemen_ (p. 284), and J. D. Watson supplies the frontispiece to vol. xv., _Bringing Home the Hay_, and also that to vol. xvi., _Second Blossom_. In this latter Wilfrid Lawson has illustrations to _M. or N._ (pp. 156, 193, 236, 386); T. Morten, a powerful drawing, _Winter's Night_ (p. 550); G. B. Goddard, _The Sportman's Resolve_ (p. 528). The other artists, including some new contributors, are M. A. Boyd, Horace Stanton, E. J. Ellis, T. Sweeting, James Godwin, F. Roberts, A. W. Cooper, L. Huard, and B. Ridley. The Christmas number for 1869 contains a good Charles Keene, _The Coat with the Fur Lining_ (pp. 1, 6); Gilbert's _Secret of Calverly Court_ (p. 4); M. E. Edwards's _How the Choirs were Carolling_ (p. 84); and J. Mahoney's _Mr. Daubarn_ (p. 49), with others of no particular importance. The numbers for 1870 contain, _inter alia_, in the first half-year, a good J. D. Watson, _Going down the Road_ (_Frontispiece_); _A Leaf from a Sketch-Book_, by Linley Sambourne (printed, like a series this year, on special sheets of thick white paper, as four-page supplements), which contained lighter work by artists of the hour, but none worth special mention. J. Mahoney's _Going to the Drawing-room_ (p. 321), and _Sir Stephen's Question_ (p. 112), and _Spring-time_, drawn and engraved by W. L. Thomas (p. 375), are among the most interesting of the ordinary full pages. In the second half of the year, volume 18, there is a full page, _Not Mine_ (p. 501), by Arthur Hughes, which links 1855 to 1870; A. W. Small, _After the Season_ (p. 338); the very unimportant drawing by M. J. Lawless, _An Episode of the Italian War_ (p. 97), has interest as a relic; J. Mahoney contributes two to _The Old House by the River_ (pp. 67, 172), and many others by H. Paterson, Wilfrid Lawson, A. Claxton. This year a Holiday number appeared, with a not very good J. D. Watson, _A Landscape Painter_ (p. 47), and two Francis Walkers, _A Summer Holiday_ and _Rosalind and Celia_, and other seasonable designs by various hands. The Christmas number has a coloured frontispiece and other designs by H. D. Marks; J. D. Watson illustrates _What might have happened_ (pp. 8, 17, 19); and Charles Keene, _Gipsy Moll_ (pp. 39, 45); Francis Walker has _The Star Rider_ (p. 59) and _A Tale_ (p. 63); F. A. Fraser, typical of the next decade, and one might say, without undue severity, of the decadence also, and F. Gilbert, that facile understudy of _Sir John_, show examples of work differing as far as it well could; but 1870 is the last stage we need note here in the career of a magazine which did notable service to the cause of illustration, and brought a good many men into notice who have taken prominent part in the history of 'black and white.' Without placing it on a level with