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Covent Garden in 1810 and again in 1813. 'Julius Ceesar' supplies a good likeness of Macready as Brutus, in which he first appeared in 1836. John Cooper in full armour is depicted in the plate to Pericles.'' King Henry V.' is illustrated from a photograph of Mr. Lewis Waller as the King. fn the case of * All's Well that Ends Well 3 no recent representation has been seen, and the plate of Helena presents Mrs. Macklin in the character. We suspect an error here. No record of any per- formance of Helena by Mrs. Macklin exists. Miss Macklin, a quite different person, played it at Covent Garden, 29 November, 1762, and again 3 December, 1772. She is probably the subject of the portrait. Other famous 'exp9nents of the part were Mrs. Pritchard, Peg Woffington, and Mrs. Jordan. 'Othello 3 shows Henderson, the Bath Roscius, as a most cultivated and Beethoven-like Moor. A plate to 'King Lear' includes among other characters Mrs.Cibberas Cordelia. In 'The Tempest' Miss Priscilla Horton (Mrs. German Reed) is a most feminine Ariel. This shows her presumably in Macready's revival of 'The Tempest,' October, 1838. The contrast between her and the latest exponent of Ariel could not well be greater.

Great Masters. Edited by Sir Martin Conway

Part XXV. (Heinemann.)

How many parts of this noble and satisfactory production are yet to be issued we know not. No announcement of any further part appears on the cover. Nothing, however, about the present number hints that a conclusion is reached or is approximate. We can but await events, content, for our own part, that the venture should be indefinitely pro- longed. From no other series of reproductions have we received so much delight, and none can be accepted as equally representative of what is best in the art of some four centuries. Vandyck opens out the latest number, being represented by his portrait of the painter Snyders from the collection of the Earl of Carlisle. Snyders and his wife are frequent subjects of the brush of Vandyck, and many por- traits of them are in England. The present picture, which is said to belong to the painter's best time, suggests strongly Vandyck's treatment of King Charles I., and some space is devoted in the comment to the resemblance. Both tenderness and dignity are depicted in the face. From the National Museum of Stockholm comes Boucher's masterpiece of the gallery, is one of Boucher's most beautiful and characteristic works, and vindicates the raptures of modern criticism. What is best and most imaginative in eighteenth-century illus- tration is fully exhibited. The faces of Venus and the Nereides are exquisite, and the floating figures of the Cupids are beyond praise. One of the very latest purchases of the Trustees of the Berlin Museum is the 'Ascension,' attributed probably rightly to Giovanni Bellini. It is a strange and striking work, in which the central figure, forming by its delicacy and pallor a striking contrast with those entering or quitting the emptied tomb, is very weird and unearthly. Among those who might be conceived to have been influenced by the picture is William Blake. From the Hague Gallery comes one more portrait of Helena Fourment, Rubens's second wife, perhaps the best of his models. Her ripe beauty, threatening but not yet reaching exuberance, is superbly shown, and the work is a
 * Triumph of Venus.' This, which is probably the

fascinating specimen of a kind of portraiture in which the painter had no equal.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.

MR. BLACKWELL, of Oxford, has issued two parts- of a catalogue of educational books, the first being devoted to classical literature, the second to modern, history, mathematics, &c. The ' Oxford Prize Com- positions ' for 1904 are included.

Mr. Richard Cameron, of Edinburgh, has Drum- mond's ' Scottish Arms, 3 1881, 45s. ; Lyndsay's 'Ancient Heraldic Manuscript, 3 edited by Dr.. Laing, 1879, 3. (this is a beautiful facsimile of the- original of 1542 ; there are 183 pages of arms of the ancient nobles and families of Scotland) ; the Library Edition of Scott, 1829-32, 41 vols., calf gilt, 61. 6s. ; a complete set of the Scots Magazine, 1739- 1826, 97 vols., 1(K. 10s.; 'Illustrations of Burns's Works, 3 by Scottish artists, 1853-61, 5 vols., folio* 32*. ; 'The Poems of William Dunbar,' 1834-65,. scarce, "21. 8s. 6d. Under Edinburgh we find the Courant, 1770 to 1868, some years wanting, 81. 10s. ;. Weekly Journal, 1828-31, 16s. 6d. ; and 'Edinburgh in the Olden Time,' 63 views, large folio, 18s. Qd.. (published at 51. 5s.). 'Encyclopaedia Britannica,' eighth edition, is 45.9. : original edition of Johnson's* 'Dictionary, 3 with all the fierce definitions, after- wards suppressed, 2 vols., large thick folio, calf,, 18s. 6d. ; Lindsay's 'Coinage of Scotland,' contain- ing many hundred examples, 1845-68, scarce, 24s. ;. and ' Illustrations of Scott's Works,' complete set, 13 vols., folio, 3J. 3*. (published at 13/. 13s.). There are also an early copy in plaster of Chantrey's bust,. in best condition, 25s. ; and 'Reminiscences of the Monks of St. Giles ' (an Edinburgh literary club), 2 vols., 1888-9, very scarce, 21. 15s.

Mr. William Downing, of Birmingham, has a Kelmscott Rossetti's ' Hand and Soul,' choicely bound by the Birmingham Guild, 1895, 51. 5s. ; a complete set of first editions of ' Fors Clavigera,' 4?. 4s. ; also second edition of ' The Stones of Venice,' 4^. 15s. Goupil's series of royal and other biographies, 10 vols., royal 4to, scarce, is 311. 10s. ; ' The Greville Journals,' 8 vols., 8vo, 11. Is. ;.. a remarkable collection of the pamphlets on George IV. and his Ministers and Queen Caroline written by Hone, and illustrated by Cruikshauk,, bound into 7 vols., very rare, 11. Is. ; De Musset's 'CEuvres Completes,' 11 vols., 4. 4s. ; Caulfield's ' Portraits,' 4. 18s. ; the " Tudor Translations," 38 vols., scarce, 32^. ; Stevenson's ' Works,' com- plete, 34 vols., scarce, '381. (this contains biblio- graphy by Prideaux) ; a real first edition of 'John. Inglesant,' 3. 3s. ; Lecky's ' European Morals,' very- scarce, 1869, 21. 10s. ; and an original edition of Thackeray's ' Essay on Cruikshank,' 1840, 11. 10s.

Mr. Francis Edwards has issued Part I. of an American catalogue. This is well classified. Under

'Atlas,' 2 vols., 1764, 21. 10s.; 'Bibliotheca Ameri- cana, 3 1789, 21. 15s. ; Bowen's 'Atlas, 3 1752, 3/. 10s.; Burney's ' Chronological History of Voyages. 3 1803- 1817, 11. ; Cook's ' Voyages, 3 official edition, 6/. 15s. ; Hakluyt, original edition, 1589, 24/. (a tine copy, complete ; there are also other editions) ; Van- couver, 1798, 81. 10s. ; Thevenot, 1696, 101. Other names are Charlevoix and Churchill. Under Natural History are vols. i. to iii. of 'The American