The rest of the illustrations of the magazine, which only lived for a few months, are comparatively few and not above the average in merit. The numbers, May 1865 to May 1866, contain eight drawings by J. D. Watson, illustrating Mrs. Riddell's _Phemie Keller_. Thirteen by Paul Gray illustrate _The White Flower of Ravensworth_, by Miss M. Betham-Edwards. Others noteworthy are: _Gythia_, by T. R. Lamont; _Dahut_, and _An Incident_ of 1809, by J. Lawson; _Mistrust_ and _Love's Pilgrimage_, by Edward Hughes; a fine composition, _Lost on the Fells_, by W. Small, and a few minor drawings mostly in the text. It was published by T. Bosworth, 215 Regent Street. This is a brief record of a fairly praiseworthy venture, but there is really no more to be said about it. THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE, Another sixpenny illustrated monthly more definitely religious in its aim than _Good Words_, of which it was an offspring, was started in 1865. The illustrations from the first were hardly less interesting than those in the other publications under the direction of Mr. Alexander Strahan. Indeed, it would be unjust not to express very clearly and unmistakably the debt which all lovers of black-and-white art owe to the publisher of these magazines. The conditions of oil-painting demand merely a public ready to buy: whether the artist negotiates directly with the purchaser, or employs an agent, is a matter of convenience. But black-and-white illustration requires a well-circulated, well-printed, well-conducted periodical: not as a middleman whose services can be dispensed with, but as a vital factor in the enterprise. Therefore drawings intended for publication imply a publisher, and one who is not merely a man with pronounced artistic taste, but also a good administrator and a capable man of business. These triple qualifications are found but rarely together, and when they do unite, the influence of such a personality is of the utmost importance. Mr. Strahan, who appears to have combined in no small degree the qualities which go to make a successful publisher, set on foot two popular magazines, which, in spite of their having long passed their first quarter of a century, are still holding their own. A third, full of promise, _Good Words for the Young_, was cut off in its prime, or rather died of a lingering disease, caused by that terrible microbe _the foreign cliché_. Others, _The Day of Rest_ and _Saturday Journal_, also affected by the same ailment, succumbed after more or less effort; but the magazines that relied on the best contemporary illustrators still flourish. The moral, obvious as it is, deserves to be insisted upon. To-day the photograph from life is as popular with many editors as the _cliché_ from German and French originals was in the seventies; but a public which tired of foreign electros may soon grow weary of the inevitable photograph, and so the warning is worth setting down. [Illustration: J. MAHONEY 'SUNDAY MAGAZINE' 1866, p. 825