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 found in the most out-of-the-way places, and in the most unlikely magazines. The titles of some of these old magazines have a forbidding ring about them, and are suggestive of early-Victorian days when Sunday reading was limited to one or two volumes, and these aforesaid magazines were evidently acceptable to a generation less broad than our own as an innovation after Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress."

The early numbers of the magazines we have enumerated teem with fine designs, and to the names already given we must add Mrs. Allingham (Miss H. Paterson), Mrs. Staples (Miss M. E. Edwards), Paul Gray, and C. Green.

As to prices, it is rather a question of pence than shillings. Many of these old magazines can be purchased for a shilling a volume. Some of the illustrated volumes, other than periodicals, are beginning to increase in price, because collectors are inquiring for them, and they have an appreciative public in Germany. But it is not yet too late for the lover of these bygone treasures to gather from the field a score or two of really fine wood engravings representative of this period.

In the list which follows a fairly wide selection is given to enable the beginner to glean much that is valuable from a very prolific time, crowded with work of strikingly original character and instinct with vigour which has inspired all that is best in the modern school of wood engraving.

What to Collect.—The following is not intended to be a complete list, but purports to indicate various sources where engravings may be found representa