Men of Mark : Contemporary Portraits of Distinguished Men. With
Biographical Notices by Thompson Cooper, F.S.A. Third Series. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This volume contains thirty-six portraits, various, of course, in their merits as characteristic representations of the men portrayed (for all faces do not equally lend themselves to photo- graphers), but all of them excellent specimens, in point of execution, of the photographic art. Among the portraits Art is the beet repre- sented, claiming as many as ten, among which are those of Messrs. Red- grave, Webster, and Marshall, and of the late Mr. Durham ; Divinity has five, the Archbishop of York being the most conspicuous ; Literature, three, Mr. Anthony Trollops, Professor Max Muller, and Mr. Goldwin Smith ; Politics, the Army and the Navy, twelve ; Science is represented by Dr. Darwin and Professor Owen; Medicine, by Sir W. Gull and Dr. Andrew Clark ; Discovery, by Commander Cameron ; and Practical Art, by Mr. Scott Russell. The notices are, as they should be, exact in detail and neutral in colour.
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