Vanity Fair Album. Vol. XXV. 1893. (Vanity Fair Office.)— There
is nothing new to be said about the Album. It is no fault of the conductors that celebrities grow yearly more difficult to find, the world not being able to bring a really great man to the front every week. Nor can we blame very severely if we find that the editor takes pretty good care that the " Whig dogs should have the worst of it." (Whigs, of course, have either ceased to be, or have rallied to the Conservative cause ; but there are still some Radicals to be pilloried.) The first portrait is of the young King of Spain, who does not look very happy ; the second is a pleasing likeness of the Duchess of York. Of the others there is not one whom one would put in the first class of distinction. Still, not a few are interesting, Of foreigners we may mention M. Alphonse Daudet and Professor Virohow ; of Englishmen, Mr. Bryce and Archbishop Vaughan. Perhaps the best thing in the volume is the frontispiece, with Mr. Balfour, Messrs. Chamberlain (senior and junior), Sir John Gorst, and Sir Richard Temple on one side ; and Sir William Harcourt, Mr. Mundella, and Mr. Justin McCarthy on the other.
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