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The Portfolio. January. (Seeloys.)—The Portfolio opens the year with a number of more than usual excellence, fulfilling so far the very large promise which it makes for the volume now commenced. A series of papers on " The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire," to which Mr. L. Chambers Lefroy is to furnish the description and M. Brunet- Debaines the illustrations, is begun with an account of St. Mary's, York. There is another etching, " The Lion-Tomb of Xanthus," by Mr. C. 0. Murray, after W. Muller, and a mezzotint, the portrait of Mrs. Chambers, by Reynolds. When we have said that there are eight other illustrations to the number, of which two are of full-page -size, it will be seen that the magazine gives a bountiful supply of art .to its readers. These have also the opportunity of obtaining the magazine in a very sumptuous form, printed on large paper, with a proof of each mezzotint or etching.
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