20 JANUARY 1894, Page 23

The Portfolio, January. (Seeley.)—This magazine has taken with the present

year a new departure that promises largely to increase its usefulness. It ceases, in fact, to be a magazine, becoming, instead, a monthly series of monographs on artistic subjects. This January number is a paper of eighty pages—the shape is changed, we should say, from quarto to octavo—from the pen of the editor, Mr. P. G. Hamerton, on Rembrandt's Etchings. It is difficult to say enough in praise of this admirable piece of work. Its literary merit, its copious and excellent illustrations, make it a most valuable contribution to art history.