14 JULY 1894, Page 25

Tennyson and His Preraphaelite Illustrators. By George Somes Layard. (Elliot

Stook.)—The quarto edition of Tennyson pub- lished in 1857, and recently reprinted, was one of the most interesting monuments of Preraphaelite art. The wood-en- gravings after Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt, and ethers, were also examples of a very fine period of that art in our country. The small book before us is a gossiping disquisition of no great value on these illustrations and their authors ; but the book has the advantage of including several studies for the illustrations, and also reproductions of some beautiful drawings by Mrs. Rossetti. For the sake of them, it is worth buying or looking at.