17 MAY 1873, Page 24

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Portfolio. May. (Seeley.)—The frontispiece of the May number is a very attractive etching after M. Feyen-Perrin, entitled a "Sailor's Infancy." The general atmospheric effects and the shadows of the principal figure are excellent. If we might venture a- criticism, it would be that the young sailor is at least as much like to a shaggy little dog as he is to a child. A lithograph after George 3Iorland, "The Storm," and two etchings of woodland scenes, complete the illustrations. Professor Sidney Colvin, in his series of papers "From Rigaud to Reynolds," has reached the great President of the Academy, but only to deal at present with some preliminary considerations.