For both embellishments I am indebted to the same kind disposition and talented pencil as that which pourtrayed the Duchess. This glorious book cannot, at least, be said to be opened by unworthy hands. Of the artists engaged in its illustration, the pencils of Messrs. Willement and Bone (from the latter of whom both these copies are taken) strike me as having been most felicitously exercised: by the use of oil and gum-especially of the former. In consequence, those of Messrs. Cooper and Stephanoff, by the mere use of water colour, seem to want warmth and effect. Of course, in drawing and a thorough knowledge of art, they are in all respects worthy of the hands which executed them. The text is a transcript of that of Hall the Chronicler; but I cannot say that a cursive hand is the fittest accompaniment of pictorial decoration.

Sir John Tobin has recently given another proof of his attachment to illuminated volumes, in the purchase of a small missal called the Hours of Mary of Burgundy: also from the Hanrott collection. It is so small as to be very little more than four inches in height, by three and four only in width; but it is pregnant with rich and striking specimens of the art of the time. Its late owner has, I think, overrated its graphic skill. The arrangement or disposition of its ornaments appears to me to be its more essential merit. The larger heads of Christ and the Virgin-are in the usual meagre style of the day, and decidedly of Flemish art. As to the pre