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The Magazine of Art, 1593. (Cassell and Co.)—The annual volume of this magazine displays the great variety of interest which distinguishes it. We may find elsewhere finer examples of the various artistic processes, but in general attractiveness it would not be easy to find a rival. The Tennyson portraits are among the most interesting of the items, though we cannot say that we greatly enjoy the let!erpress with which Mr. Theodore Watts accompanies them. This is, now and then, somewhat egotistic. Its criticism, however, is frequently acute, as when he points out that, in Mrs. Cameron's photograph, the forehead is too smooth (there are, however, better reproductions of this than that given in the magazine) ; and in his opinion that "Nature's idea' in Tennyson's face must be Relight in the great Mayall photograph and the painting by Giirardot based upon it." We had looked through the portraits, of which there are seventeen, of one kind or another, in all, and had come to the same conclu- sion. The Manning portraits form another notable series. Here we have what is wanting in the ease of Tennyson, a portrait of
differ among themselves, no two having quite the same informa- tion, and there are some hints in The Outdoor World—an ambitious title, by the way—that readers may not find in other natural histories. The insects are copiously figured, and the butterflies have some good plates allotted to them. Indeed, this division will be found to display most interest and occupy the most space.
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