The Art Journal. (Virtue and Co.)—This is the first volume
of a new series inaugurated with the beginning of the current year by a considerable reduction in price. We are glad to learn that the change has had the good effect of more than doubling the sale. The Art Journal is an excellent magazine, and cannot but educate in taste and instruct those who study it. The frontispiece) of the present volume is a very attractive etching of " The Apple-seller," by Mr. D. Mordant, after -Mr. J. E. Sainton. There are four other etchings, among which we are inclined to prefer " A Public Letter-Writer at Seville." The line-engravings are five in number, and there are two "repro- ductions in fac-simile"—" A Reverie," after a drawing by Mr. Marcus Stone, I.R.A. ; and the " French in Cairo," after a painting by Mr. W. C. Horsley. Both are interesting, the latter particularly so. The minor illustrations are numerous, while the literary matter of the magazine, with its notes on art in the past and art in the present, is both good and varied.
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