Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer. Notes by William
Michael Rossetti. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. W. M. Rossetti con- tents himself with the useful task of describing what his brother did year by year in the way of painting and poetry. The prices which he received for his works were not, on the whole, large. The "Venus Astarte" was commissioned for 42,100, and "Dante's Dream" was sold to the Corporation of Liverpool for £1,545. It would have been convenient if Mr. W. M. Rossetti had appended to the list of his brother's works of art (which number 377 in all) the prices, where these are ascertainable. We have found that the narrative of the negotiations for sale is a little hard to follow. A similar account follows of D. G. Rossetti's literary work. The author is to be thanked for his painstaking chronicle, not the less because he has seldom gone beyond a record of facts.
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