MAY 1890

U.S. PATENT OFFICE

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Angel of Death crowning Innocence. G. F. Watts, R.A.
The Rose of the Infanta. Herbert H. Gilchrist
The Life Mask of William Blake. By the kind permission of Mr. George

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Richmond, R.A..

Priscilla and Aquila. Being one of the designs prepared for the decoration of

the chapel at Eaton Hall, by Frederic Shields; from a heightened version

of the original cartoons in the possession of Mrs. Russell Gurney, by the

kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Westminster

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Woodcuts engraved by the late Arthur Burgess for the unfinished portion of

Mr. Ruskin's "Proserpina"

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"Quæ est ista, quæ ascendit de deserto, deliciis affluens, innixa super dilectum

suum?" Canticum Canticorum, vii. 5. E. Burne-Jones, A.R.A.

Miss Siddall drawing Rossetti. D. G. Rossetti. By the kind permission

W. B. Scott, Esq.

POEMS.

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A Facsimile of William Blake's Sibylline Leaf on Homer and Virgil. From

an impression in the possession of H. H. Gilchrist, Esq.

Hiems. Designed and drawn on the wood by Selwyn Image, and cut
by C. M. Padday

Diana, Mars, and Venus. Andrea Mantegna. From the original in the
Print Room of the British Museum. By the kind permission of the
Trustees

A Christmas Carol. Christina G. Rossetti

"Like the Days of an Hireling." Herbert P. Horne

A Christmas Carol. Selwyn Image

Verses suggested by some lines of Ovid.

Herbert P. Horne

Lines written on the Walls of Harlech Castle. Herbert P. Horne

"The Thoughts" of Marcus Aurelius. Arthur Galton .

Spring. William Bell Scott.

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