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 (facing p. 280), after H. C. Selous from a portrait by Vandyck of Caspar de Crayer, "Printed and published by W. Elliott, Fenchurch Street," its strength falls little short of mezzotint. But portraits were produced in greater numbers in Holland and in Germany, and may frequently be found without much trouble at prices that are in pence rather than in shillings. It is not generally known that Turner executed some lithographs, but during a visit to Edinburgh in 1824, it appears that he drew two scenes of the fire which did so much damage there at that date. These have recently been discovered, and illustrations of them appear in the Connoisseur, June, 1906. Whistler did over a hundred lithographs, many of which are now scarce. Old Battersea Bridge done in 1879; Reading, figure of a lady seated reading, 1879; Limehouse, with its quaint old buildings and wharves, its three-masted vessel, and its barge with a man and woman in foreground, 1878, are among the rarest, and bring from three to six guineas each. Then there is the Winged Hat, the figure of a young woman seated, which appeared in the Whirlwind at the price of a penny, now catalogued at anything from ten shillings to a guinea. But other Whistlers are still procurable for next to nothing. There is in an odd volume of the Pageant, 1896, which may readily be picked up on booksellers' stalls for a shilling, a lithograph, by Whistler, entitled, The Doctor.—Portrait of My Brother.

Other odd volumes contain work by Mr. C. H. Shannon or by Mr. J. Pennell; there is the Savoy (Nos. 1 and 2), 1896, edited by that wonderful and