Vanity Pair Album. With Biographical and Critical Notices by Jehu
Junior. (Vanity Fair Office.)—For its really distinguished men the Album has to go out of England. It might even be said that there is but one who can be so described. This is Li Hung Chang. M. Hanotaux is known to Europe at least, and Mr. Du lifaurier was famous on both sides of the Atlantic. But there are not a few whose similitudes we are interested in seeing. The Duke of Bedford, Mr. Justice Byrne (whose eleva- tion to the Bench " Jehu Junior" has the credit of prophesying), the Speaker, Sir W. Ma,cCormac, and Mr. Gerald Balfour may be mentioned. Of the character of the portraits it is needless to speak. The Album has, as a rule, settled down into the rational and, we think, highly effective style which we asso- ciate with the signature of "Spy." Why, then, interpolate among these the curious caricature of Mr. George Meredith ? This carries us back to quite a remote past, to the volumes of past decades.
We have received the first volume of the "Gadshill Edition" of Charles Dickens's works, edited by Andrew Lang (Chapman and Hall), with the Original Illustrations. The present instal- ment is the Pickwick Papers in two volumes.
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