CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Quarto (Virtue and Co.) is a magazine issued in connection with the Slade School, and contains an interesting account by Professor Brown of one of his students, Miss Matthews, whose promising career was cut short at the age of twenty. The repro- ductions of her drawings given seem to justify the high praise bestowed by her teacher. There is in them a quite remarkable sense of movement as well as perception of character. Some old students are contributors of drawings to this number; and no trouble has been spared in the reproduction of the pictures. Especially good are Rossetti's " Salutation of Beatrice," and Watts's " Ophelia."
The bound volume of the monthly magazine, Architecture (Talbot House), contains a mass of interesting articles on country houses, ancient and modern, and cathedrals, English and foreign. The illustrations are excellent. A specially interesting series of papers by the editor, Mr. Morgan, deal with Westminster Abbey. In the account of Henry VIL's tomb we are given the King's instructions to his executors regarding his burial. He tells them to perform it with regard "somewhat to our dignity royal, eschewing always damnable pomp and outrageous superfluities." Alas! how well the words " outrageous superfluities " apply to half the monuments which disfigure the Abbey.
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