No less good than the above is the bound volume
of the Art Journal (Virtue and Co., 21s.) The articles on contemporary foreign art are most useful, as are the accounts of the minor crafts. There is a good deal about modern artistic furniture; the general impression left by the illustrations is that affectation and hideous- ness dog the steps of the furniture reformer. Mr. Arthur Tomson gives a curious account of a number of photographs of pictures by J. F. Millet. Little about the originals seems to be known, but the reproductions show them to be works of the greatest beauty. The two men swimming and the " Sommeil de Thus " show such grandeur of form and terribilitti of spirit that we .could wish that Millet had in his latter years sometimes painted the undraped figure. If he had influenced classic as he did rustic art, what might not have been the results ?
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