20 NOVEMBER 1886, Page 21

We have received two numbers of a series which bears

the title of "Illustrated Gleanings from the Classics" (Field and Tuer), "Classics" being understood, it will be seen, in a sense somewhat

different from that which the word usually bears. The first number is Sir Charles Grandison, not the tale, but six illustrations from

the original copper-plates engraved in 1778, each being accompanied

by a brief explanatory extract. The second number is Solomon Gessner. Gessner was a German Swiss, born in Zurich in 1730. He

was both a poet (excelling chiefly in rural subjects) and an artist. The illustrations are from the pencil of Thomas Stothard, engraved by R. Cranek.