The Art Journal, 1893. (Virtue and Co.) — The Art Journal, the
oldest of our art publications, continues to provide abundant, and on the whole satisfactory, matter for its readers. We cannot rank its full-plate illustrations exactly on a level with some furnished by its contemporaries, but they deserve no little commendation. In the volume before us we have seven etchings, one of them an original by Mr. R. W. Macbeth. Of the others, we would mention Mr. C. 0. Murray's "Vale of Rest," after Sir .T. E, Millais; and Mr. G. W. Rhend's " Cromwell at Ripley Castle," after Mr. Rudolf Lehmann. There are five photogravures, among which "West- minster," a fine view from the river, after Mr. Vicat Cole's picture, and "A Daughter of the Knickerbockers," after a picture by Mr. G. H. Boughton. may be distinguished. (The " Knicker- bockers " are the old Dutch noblesse of Now York, and their " daughter " looks worthy of them.) There are twelve "tinted plates," which, as a whole, are perhaps less attractive than the etchings and photogravures. There are, as usual, some interesting notices of contemporary art and artists. Miss Helen Zimmern's account of the Italian sculptor, Rinaldo Carnielo, should be par- ticularly noticed, along with some very curious specimens of his art which illustrate it. They are, indeed, "sensations" in sculp- ture. Other subjects of similar articles are Max Liebermann and Mr. Burne-Jones. There is a series of essays on the Tate collec- tion, and a Supplement giving an account of the Chicago Exhibition, Of miscellaneous articles, we may mention Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse on the River Arun, and "The Royal Palace of Madrid," with a portrait of the child-King, Alfonso XIII.
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