It should be sufficient to say of the annual volume
of the Magazine of Art (Cassell and Co.), that it is at least equal to the average of its predecessors. The frontispiece is an etching by M. Remus, after C. Van Haener's " Venetian Bead-Stringers," a very good specimen. There are five other etchings among the twelve plates, a considerable increase, unless our memory deceives us, of the proportion occupied by this moat attractive and effective kind of work. Among the others, we should pick out "The Dreamers," by M. Champollion, after Mr. Albert Moore. Of the other six plates, five are photogravures, with their unequalled fidelity of reproduction, and one an engraving. It must not be forgotten that the increase in the artistic attractions of the magazine has been accompanied by a diminution of price. It would be difficult to find, in this branch of literature, a better equivalent for a purchaser's money. The other illustrations are to be numbered by the hundreds; and the literary contents, chronicling the Art of the present, and describing that of the past, are singularly varied and interesting.
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