"Vanity Fair" Affium. Eighteenth Series. (Vanity Fair Office.)— There is
little or nothing new that can be said about this last volume. Ills as good as its predecessors, except so far as it naturally suffers more from the defeat that the personages whom it depicts are mostly uninteresting. It is impossible to furnish every year fifty-two note- worthy persons; accordingly, " Spy " is reduced to great extremities to makeup the tale of portraits complete. We observe that he is going to remedy this by giving us some of the heroes of the past over again- And, indeed, it is high time, when his" Statesmen" are such nobodies, and his "Men of the Day" so obscure. The most interesting of his pictures is the frontispiece, which contains, besides officials of the House, portraits of Lord Hartington and Lord Randolph Churchill, and among others, Messrs. Gladstone, Chamberlain, John Bright, Parnell, Labouchere, Chaplin, and Sir IV. Harcourt. ".Teha Junior," in his cynical comment, seems to prefer Mr. Chaplin to all the rest, and to allot the second place to Mr. Bradlaugh.
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