10 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 23

The Songs and Sonnets of Shakespeare. Illustrated by Sir John

Gilbert. (Sampson Low and Co.) —The Sonnets are represented by three or four examples only, and, indeed, these do not lend themselves so readily to illustrations as do the Songs. Of the latter we have as many as twenty specimens ; and the subjects, such as Autolycus displaying his waxes to the Bohemian peasants, and the military carousers in "And let me the cannikin clink 1" are admirably suited to Sir John Gilbert's pencil. The volume is a reproduction on a smaller scale of the illustrations published in 1862.