14 OCTOBER 1893, Page 41

Cabinet Portrait Gallery. Fourth Series. Photographs by W. and D.

Downey. (Cassell and Co.)—There is little to say about this volume, which carries on, without any diminution of merit or change of manner, an evidently successful series. The most interesting thing is to analyse the list of portraits, and so get some idea of the people that the public most care to see in "their habit as they live." The list comes out in this shape. The stage is at the head, but not by such a preponderance as usual :—Stage, 8 ; Politics, 7 ; Royalties, 6 ; Literature, 5 ; Music, 2; Religion, 2. Art, Science, the Services, Journalism, and Society have one representative, and there is Mr. W. Moncure Conway.