In 1866 J. Mahoney's _Summer_, the frontispiece to the volume, is a notable example of a clever artist, whose work has hardly yet attracted the attention it deserves; _Marie_ (p. 753), a study of an old woman knitting, is no less good. Birket Foster's _Autumn_ (p. 1) is also a very typical example. Paul Gray's _Among the Flowers_ (p. 624), a group of children from the slums in a country lane, is fairly good. W. Small, in _Hebe Dunbar_ 'from a photograph' (p. 441), supplies an object-lesson of translation rather than imitation, which deserves to be studied to-day. In it, a really great draughtsman has given you a personal rendering of facts, like those he would have set down had he worked from life, and thereby imparted individual interest to a copy of a photograph. This one block, if photographers would but study it, should convince them that a good drawing is in every way preferable to a 'half-tone' block from a photograph of the subject; it might also teach a useful lesson to certain draughtsmen, who employ photographs so clumsily that the result is good neither as photography nor as drawing, but partakes of the faults of both. Three designs to the _Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood_, by Dr. George Mac Donald, (pp. 641, 713, 785), the first quite in the mood of the hour, a capital piece of work, and _A Sunday Afternoon in a London Court_, complete Mr. Small's share in this volume. Robert Barnes supplies the other eight drawings to Dr. Mac Donald's story, and another, _The Pitman and his Wife_ (p. 17), an excellent specimen of his 'British Workman' manner. F. J. Shields, a very infrequent contributor to these magazines, has a biblical group, '_Even as thou wilt_' (p. 33). Edward Hughes (who must not be confounded with Arthur Hughes, nor with the present member of the Old Water-Colour Society, E. R. Hughes) is responsible for _Under a Cottage Roof_ (p. 192), _The Bitter and Sweet_ (p. 249), _The First Tooth_ (p. 337), and _The Poor Seamstress_ (p. 409); although a somewhat fecund illustrator not devoid of style and invention, his work fails to interest one much to-day. J. Gordon Thomson, so many years the cartoonist of _Fun_, is represented by _On the Rock_ (p. 544). F. W. Lawson's _Hope_ (p. 120) and A. W. Bayes's _Saul and David_ (p. 703), with a drawing of wild animals drinking, by Wolf, complete the list of original work, the rest being engraved from photographs. [Illustration: S. L. FILDES 'SUNDAY MAGAZINE,' 1868, p. 656 THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER] [Illustration: A. BOYD HOUGHTON 'SUNDAY MAGAZINE' 1867, p. 817 A LESSON TO A KING] [Illustration: A. BOYD HOUGHTON 'SUNDAY MAGAZINE' 1867, p. 258 LUTHER THE SINGER] [Illustration: A. BOYD HOUGHTON 'SUNDAY MAGAZINE' JOHN BAPTIST] [Illustration: J. MAHONEY 'GOOD WORDS' 1868, p. 672 YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY] [Illustration: J. W. NORTH 'SUNDAY MAGAZINE' 1867, p. 609 ANITA'S PRAYER] [Illustration: G. J. PINWELL