3 JANUARY 1857, Page 30

REYNARD THE FOX.*

Kaulbach has left for others little chance of being better than secondbest in the illustration of Reynard the Fox. The subject, however, will always be a tempting one to artists who possess the gift of humorously indicating human character, passions, follies, and infirmities, in brute form. This power is in the command of Gustav Canton ; whose humour, readiness, and clever combination, are considerable,—marred, however, by an unfortunate vulgarity of artistic style, at any rate as represented in these lithographs. Reynard in clerical garb entering an in

5 The Story of Reynard the Fox. A new Version, by David Vedder, Author of .‘ Orcadian Sketches," itc. Illustrated by Gustav Canton, of Munich and Dusseldorf, and Lithographed by Schenck and ArFarlane, Edinburgh. Second edition. Published by Bogue.