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 over sixty water-colour drawings exhibited at the Dudley Gallery and at the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours.

The illustration (facing p. 108), is reproduced from Dalziel's illustrated "Goldsmith," published by Messrs. Ward and Lock in 1865, when Pinwell was only twenty-three years of age. There are a hundred pictures drawn by G. J. Pinwell in this volume, and very beautiful they are. The portrait of Madam Blaize is so good that Randolph Caldecott paid Pinwell the sincerest flattery by conveying it to one of his Nursery Books almost bodily.

Some of the uncut blocks for this volume of the "Works of Goldsmith" are in the possession of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

During the sixties the collector may find wood engravings after Millais by the hundred, Du Maurier, Charles Keene, and Tenniel may be found in even greater profusion. There is one early drawing by Millais illustrating Byron's poem of "The Dream" in Willmott's "Poets of the Nineteenth Century," published in 1857. Millais was then twenty-eight. A youth and a maiden are clasping hands. At an open door stands a saddled horse. There is a simplicity and a directness of sentiment in the drawing, and a suggestion of pathos conveyed by the masterly lines which it is difficult to believe ever proceed from the epoch in which the lustre ornament and the wax fruit under glass shade, the Windsor chair and the antimacassar were the prevailing features.

Of Leighton's illustrations to Romola there is a