It will be sufficient to describe briefly the Last "Graphic"
Pictures of Randolph Caldecott (Rontledge and Sons). Every one remembers those little love-stories or comedies told by the pencil, slightly aided by the pen. Here we have, after four hunting pictures, four such comediettas. First comes "The Lovers Quarrel," where Edwin, sulking under a tree, is attacked by a ball, magnanimously resolves to flee, after a brief deliberation whether be will not punish Angelina by letting the creature wreak its will, escapes after sore peril of drowning, and finally is reconciled in a dripping condition. This is perhaps the most humorous of the four. "The Legend of the Laughing Oak," "The Strange Adventure of a Dog-Cart," wherein one sees the possible "seamy side" of a driving tour; and "The Curmudgeon's Christmas," with the conversion of the two old Cur- mudgeons and one young one to better thooghte by a little damsel whom they find at an inn, are the other three, and are all charming in their way.
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