22 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 21

The Magazine of Art. (Cassell and Co.)—The seventh annual volume

of this magazine is now before us, and keeps up to the average of its predecessors. The frontispiece is an etching, "Lady Bountiful," by Robert W. Macbeth, A.R.A., in which the figure strikes us as a particularly fine piece of work. Besides this, there are more than sixty full-page illustrations, engravings by a great variety of artists, many of them of established reputation. The smaller illus- trations must number between four and five hundred. We need hardly say to those who know the Magazine of Art that literary excellence is by no means neglected in its contents. The art of the day, both at home and abroad, finds here a record ; and there are reviews of the art of the past.