Finally, we have two other serials, which can hardly be
called maga- zines. One, The Picture-Gallery (Sampson Low and Co.), aims at giving month by month photographs of the works of distinguished masters of the English school. There cannot, however, be much plea- sure or profit in collecting such dismal and funereal photographs as these of David Roberts's works. The motto, "Ex Ince lucellunr," besides being ominous, is, we could fancy, ironical. Of a higher class (from the same firm) is Men of Mark. The photographs of Lord Sal- borne, Sir B. Frere, and Vice-Chancellor Hall are all characteristic likenesses, but they lack force, and the size is rather too small. Are we wrong in thinking they are over-" touched " ? They all record "smooth things" of the sitters. The letter-press seems unusually ac- curate, though we could name some omissions in each memoir, which would be better supplied, even in a brief notice.
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