The new volume of Men of Mark : Contemporary Portraits
of Distinguished Men (Sampson Low and Co.) seems to be fully equal in point of interest and excellence of execution to its predecessors. The portraits, numbering thirty-six in all, are photographed from life by Messrs. Lock and Whitfield. They are all successes, with the possible exception of Mr. W. H. Smith, who looks as if he was newly come from a thirty hours' session in the House, and had lost for the moment the pleasant look which is habitual to him. Lord Beacons- field comes first in the volume; of Judges we have seven, Lord Cairns and Lords Justices Cotton and Lush being among them ; of poli- ticians, ten ; six men of letters, to wit, Robert Browning, Sir Theodore Martin, Mr. Wilkie Collins, William Harrison Ainsworth, and the late Tom Taylor ; four artists, Mr. Alma-Tadema among them ; three divines ; two musicians, Sir Julius Benedict and Dr. Macfarren ; one soldier, Major Chard, V.C.; two men of science, Dr. Hooker and Sir Henry Bessemer, and making up the number, the explorer Hormuzd Rassam, F.R.G.S. The " Biographical Notices," which are of the neutral character that is suitable to the occasion, are supplied by Mr. Thompson Cooper.
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