" Clear and cool, clear and cool.
By laughing shallow and dreaming pool,"
has been illustrated here by fifteen drawings. Of these, Mr. J. D. Woodward contributes five, Mr. W. L. Taylor three, Mr. H. Winthrop Pierce two ; while five other artists—Messrs. G. A. Teel, O. Hirsch- berg, A. St. John Harper, C. Copeland, and W. F. Halsell--furnish one apiece, the whole being under the general supervision of Mr. W. St. John Harper. The third, "By shining shingle and foaming weir" —and we must say the same of others which have the same green tint—does not seem to us a successful effort in colour. Here, too, the river above the weir has an appearance of disproportionate width. "Under the crag where the ousel sings" is very pretty, but the scenery is on far too magnificent a goals. Kingsley's "crag" must surely have been a rock, of bold outline, indeed, but of moderate height. Here there is a cliff which, to judge by the trees in the foreground, must be much more than a hundred feet high. Of coarse, Kingsley may have meant ouch a cliff, though the mention of a bird singing seems to suggest a smaller male of things But anyhow, this bit of river scenery is quite unlike all that the river is represented as passing through elsewhere. On the whole, we prefer the drawings that illustrate the later course of the stream. The "seascape," "As I lose myself in the infinite main," is particularly pleasing, as is the one that precedes it, "To the golden sands and the leaping bar, And the taintless tide that awaits us afar."
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