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The Magazine of Art. (Cassell and Co.)—We gladly welcome another

volume of this excellent publication, which maintains its high character, while sold at a price that is almost incomprehensibly low. The personal and biographical element is represented by the eight notices of "Our Living Artists," and by a series of chapters on "The Romance of Art," in which we have veiled stories of interesting personages and episodes in art-life, told by Miss Julia Cartwright, Miss M. F. Robinson, and others. Among the illustrations, we may notice the beautiful landscapes which accompany the notice of "The New Forest," " Chloris," after Mr. Alma Tadema, "Fashion in Waists," and "Female Head-gear." The etched frontispiece, "Here it is," a bride reading the announcement of her marriage, in the Times, is after after Mr. Robert W. Macbeth.