13 NOVEMBER 1886, Page 23

Illustrations. Conducted by Francis George Heath. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and

Co.)—We welcome with all wishes for its pro- sperity and long life, this new magazine, a collected volume of which we have now for the first time before us. Its object is to give, at a small cost, good reading and good pictures, by the latter being meant not, of coarse, elaborately executed works of art, but satisfactory reproductions of portraits, illustrations of machinery, landscapes, Ac. Sometimes illustrations of artistic books are copied, as is done in two good examples OD pp. 110-111. Sometimes pictures are sketched, as the " Deer-stalking " scenes on pp. 61,-65. The portraits are generally good ; and the reading seems to have been carefully selected. The great Mr. Winans gives us a short, lucid account, and a spirited sketch, of "Salmon-fishing on Loch Tay." The magazine has found a place of its own in a kind of literature where one would have thought there was scarcely a place vacant.