In August 1865 Robert Barnes appears for the first time with admirably drawn boys and girls full of health and characteristically British. Afterwards one finds many of his full pages all vigorous and delightfully true to the type he represents. In August 1866 a group, _Young Cadets_, may be selected as a typical example of his strength and perhaps also of his limitations. In 1870 the falling off apparent everywhere is as noticeable in this unimportant publication as in those of far higher pretensions. Here, as elsewhere, the foreign _cliché_ appears, or possibly the subjects were engraved specially, and were not, as was so often the case, merely replicas of German and French engravings. But all the same they are from oil-paintings, not from drawings made for illustration. [Illustration: UNKNOWN 'LEISURE HOUR' 1864 ENOCH ARDEN] [Illustration: SIMEON SOLOMON 'LEISURE HOUR' 1866, p. 604 THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES] [Illustration: SIMEON SOLOMON 'LEISURE HOUR' 1866, p. 540 THE DAY OF ATONEMENT] THE LEISURE HOUR The publications of the Religious Tract Society have employed an enormous mass of illustrations, but as the artist's name rarely appears at the period with which we are concerned, either in the index of illustrations or below the engravings, the task of tracing each to its source would be onerous and the result probably not worth the labour. Yet, in the volumes of the _Leisure Hour_ for the sixties, there are a few noteworthy pictures which may later on attract collectors to a periodical which so far appealed more, one had thought, to parish workers than to art students.