In The Historical Scrap-Book (Cassell and Co.), the publishers have,
we suppose, utilised a select number of engravings relating to
famous events and personages in the history of these Kingdoms, out of the vast store of illustrations which must be at their disposal. No kind of order has been attempted, and this of course suits the idea of a scrap-book. On one page, for instance, Sir William Walworth is killing Wet Tyler, Henry VIII. is turning the cold- shoulder on Wolsey, the goatherd's wife is scolding King Alfred,
and a musketeer, temp. James I., is levelling his firing-piece. It is
clear that a book of this kind defies description. Few of our readers but must be familiar with Messrs. Cassell's illustrated books ; and it will therefore be sufficient to say that we have here nearly two hundred pages of pictures on every subject which comes under the class " historical,"—portraits, battle-scenes, pictures of costume and furniture, fancy pictures, &o.
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