We have to acknowledge Pictures from Punch, 4 vols. (Review
of Reviews Office, 30s.), now completed by the issue of the fourth volume. What need is there to speak of them? Let us give the names of the company of eight whose portraits adorn the four volumes. First there comes, and rightly comes, Sir F. Burnand, auctor opens; then there follow John Leech, John Tenniel, Mark Lemon, Shirley Brooks, Charles S. Keene, George du Maurier, and Tom Taylor. The simple enumeration of these names is enough. Who is there for whom they do not call up distinct impressions of the humorous ? (It will be noted that the honours are equally divided between pen and pencil.) It should be observed that the pictures are not arranged in chronological order. Something we lose, for we do not see the succession of styles and fashions, but we gain at least much in freshness and change of interest. The names of all the artists—and they form a goodly company—are given, and, as Sir F. Burnand remarks, here too the "spindle" side takes its place by the "spear."
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