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It is evident from these cuts that Gilbert David' at Florence, 308Vegetable Parchment-Old Etonians-Sherlock Holmes : his Methods and Literary Pedigree-Authors WantedHarford of Plymouth, "Traitor," 309 - - Biographical Information Wanted-The Lady's Pocket Magazine' Worked on any subject, not only on imaginative and The Athenæum'-Clocks and Clockmakers-Author theines, but also on the most commonplace events or "Scot-," Pembroke of ordinary life, such as views of places tempoof 'Paddiana'-Prefix "Scotchshire-St. Nicholas's Loaf-National Colour of Wales, 310 rarily of interest, street scenes, fires and other disasters, flower shows, balls, and so forth. It -William Oliver Gray, 311. REPLIES:-Earls of Derwentwater: Descendants, 311- appears to me that in many of these baser subClerkenwell Tea-Gardens: Cromwell's Gardens Statues jects (as we may call them, to distinguish them and Memorials in the British Isles: Matthew Arnold, 313 from subjects more worthy of his pencil) he only -Authors Wanted - Dene Holes or Dane Holes-The supplied the figures in the foreground, as the backFight at Dame Europa's School,' 314-Hundred of Man- grounds are seemingly by others (landscapes, hood-"Jolly Robbins "- Medallic Legends-Lowell's buildings, &c.); but, of course, Gilbert could and "Fireside Travels,' 315-Sir John Lade-Periodicals pub- would have done the whole with equal facility, lished by Religious Houses-" Aschenald "College of and had it been required, he could quite readily The Dukedom of Cleveland Chemistry, Scotland Colour and Sound, 317-The Terminal "inck"-Sir John have done the landscape to some other artist's Gilbert-Louvain and Malines: Old Painted Glass-figures! Every one knew that in figure drawing British Coins and Stamps-Early Railway Travelling -Burial-Place of Eleanor of Provence, 318. NOTES ON BOOKS:-The Oxford Dictionary—" Oxford Notes. SIR JOHN GILBERT, J. F. SMITH, AND "THE LONDON JOURNAL.' (See 11 S. vii. 221, 276, 375; viii. 121, 142; x. 102, 144, 183, 223, 262.) on Gilbert THERE is an admirable article -the best I have read-in The Magazine of Art (1898, pp. 53-64) by the editor (M. H. Spielmann), who says: "It is in virtue of his achievements in black and white that he takes his place....among the few masters who have ranged themselves among the highest." Nevertheless, Mr. Spielmann reproduces pictures only, with the exception of the title to Punch in 1843. Mr. Spielmann thinks the estimate that Gilbert did 30,000 cuts for The Illustrated London News exaggerated. I have spent some hours over the question, as, fortunately, there is a complete set of The Illustrated London News in the Reading-Room of the and grouping he was first, and for such work he was in high demand. "Some of his finer drawings, especially those on a large scale, such as issues with the Christmas Supplements, are unapproachable in vigour and interest. The most remarkable of these is the signed illustration of 27 Nov., 1852 (about 21 by 30 in.), representing the funeral of the Duke of Wellington. This is the finest large woodcut by any English or French artist I have ever met with, and can only be called superb. It rivals the huge woodcuts of Germany in the later Middle Ages." A very cursory mention, if any, is made by the various publications named of Gilbert's illustrations to The London Journal or other periodicals or books (except The Illustrated London News); and yet the biography in the D.N.B.' (by Mr. Campbell Dodgson, is likely to be Supplement, 1901) says he remembered rather as an illustrator than as a painter," and "must be regarded as one of the pioneers of pictorial journalism." is curious to think that, at the same time that Gilbert was illustrating for the Religious Tract Society, he was also working for an author whom I have heard called rious." Personally, I do not know if he deserved that epithet, for I have never read any of the novels of G. W. M. Reynolds, who, notoriety," eventually notwithstanding his died "a churchwarden of St. Andrew's, Wells (Boase, Street, in the odour of sanctity M.E.B.,' vol. v. p. 102). Gilbert illustrated more books and three men periodicals than any two or 66 ,, "noto |