20 MARCH 1880, Page 23

Vanity Fair Album. Eleventh Series. (Vanity Fair Office.)— There is

little or nothing to say that is new about this publication. The same artists, " Ape " and "Spy," give us their weekly present- ment of persons more or less eminent or notorious, in the style which the public knows so well, and has probably learnt to estimate at its worth. The editor, however, provokes remark when he says that the portraits are not caricatures. Surely it is a caricature, when one man is represented with a neck no thicker than his wrist. Is this a "reality," "brutal," or otherwise ? And does another gentleman ever stand in an attitude which is never assumed except by a puppet on strings, or a clown ?