Once more we have to speak in cordially eulogistic terms
of the threepenny monthly, Illustrations, which is edited by Mr. F. G. Heath, and the annual volume of which has just appeared. Instructive without being dull, and amusing without being frivolous or vulgar, even treating of music without lapsing into pedantry, it gives in the smallest possible space a very large amount of information about men, things, places, art, litera- ture, and science. Thus, the present volume may be consulted on such widely different subjects as the earnings of authors and the larvge of insects, tandem tricycles and the High School of Edinburgh, cathedrals and pencil-sharpeners ; it gives even the biographies of such very different persons as Angelica Kauffmann and Hr. Richard Jefferies, Lady Brassey and M. Hippolyte Carnet. The stories are the weakest element in Illustrations, and that although one of them, contributed by Mrs. Fender Cudlip, shows that authoress almost at her best.
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