The Cabinet Portrait Gallery. From Photographs by W. and D.
Downey. Second Series. (Cassell and Co.)—Here are thitty-six photographs, all more or less good, of personages more or less eminent. The notices are from a pen or pens unnamed. It seems to be en regle to make them laudatory. We must own to liking an occasional spice of something more pungent than praise. For in- stance, in the account of a well-known preacher of "Art for Art's sake," we should have liked, to say the least, a little more modera- tion in the panegyric. It is not possible, we suppose, that any of these notices should have been written by the persons them- selves. Among the best portraits are "Father Ignatius," "Dr. Abbott," "Mr. Du Maurier," "The Bishop of Ripon," and "Mr. Frederic Harrison." Why, we may ask, is Lord Charles Beresford spoken of indifferently by this his proper designation, and "Captain Lord Beresford," and his wife spoken of as "Lady Beresford"?
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