The Epic of Hades, in Three Books. By the Author
of "Songs of Two Worlds." With seventeen designs in photo-mezzotint, by George It. Chapman. (C. Kagan Paul and Co.)—We are glad to see this fine poem, on the whole, finely illustrated. To our mind, there is great inequality in these illustrations, but while some reach a very high point of beauty, none of them can be said to be absolutely failures, though more than one are relatively ineffective. The finest are, we think, the illustration of Persephone gathering flowers on the slopes of Etna, while the mighty hand descends upon her from above ; and Perseus saving Andromeda from the monster. Among the poorest, seem to us those of Phxdra and of Helen, and tho four last, representing the worship of Artemis, of Aphrodite, of Atliene, and of Here.
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