JUST PUBLISHED.

THE FINE ART ANNUAL,

IN MEDIUM 4to, PRICE 2s.

CONTAINING

Three Steel Plates and more than Thirty Wood Engravings.

Messrs. Virtue & Co. have the pleasure to announce that they have determined, in compliance with the suggestions and wishes of many friends, to undertake the publication of a Fine Art Annual.

The object that the publishers have in view is to bring before the public a Christmas Annual worthy in every way of a place upon the Drawing-room Table, and also of a place in the hands of those who frequent the Drawing-room.

The Fine Art Annual will contain Three Steel Plates and more than Thirty Wood Engravings, in illustration of a careful selection of Stories, Sketches, Poems, and Essays, made with a view to contributing, in more ways than one, to the pleasure of the Christmas Season.

A handsome CALENDAR, forming a record of facts relating to Literature and Art, will accompany the Annual.

CONTENTS.

PREAMBLE. By the Editor. With Two Illustrations.

Story.—CISSIE’S COMING HOME. By the Author of “The Blacksmith of Holsby,” “Spenser’s Wife,” &c., &c. With Four Illustrations.

Poem.—MAMMY’S AIN BAIRN. By Matthias Barr. With an Illustration.

Sketch.—PICKED UP ON THE COAST: A LITTLE PICTURE IN WORDS. By an Obscure Artist. With Two Illustrations.

Story.—UNCLE ARCHIE’S BANKRUPTCY: THE STORY OF A YEAR’S PROBATION. By the Author of “His by Right,” “John Hesketh’s Charge,” &c., &c. With Two Illustrations.

Humorous Poem.—MY SCHOOLFELLOWS. By J. D. P.

Essay.—SOME MOONLIGHT REFLECTIONS—OF TREES, STEEPLES, AND MEN. A Rigmarole. By Sawer Krawt, Author of a Considerable Quantity of Unpublished MSS. With Three Illustrations.

Poem.—NIGHT ADVENTURE. By J. D. P.

Story.—TRUE STORY OF CINDERELLA—WITHOUT THE GLASS SLIPPER. By G. J. Proctor. With Two Illustrations.

Poem.—A VISION OF TOYS. By Astley H. Baldwin. With an Illustration.

Sketch.—A MERRIE CHRISTMAS: A VERY SMALL-BEER CHRONICLE FOR THE YOUNGSTERS. By an Elder Brother. With Two Illustrations.

THE CALENDAR, comprised within Twelve pages, with beautifully designed and engraved Borders, illustrating the Months.

VIRTUE & CO., 26, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] For drawings of the anemone see S. B. 87, E. B. 11, and P. F. 66.

[B] See Dr. Hooker “On the Vegetation of the Carboniferous Period,” Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, &c., vol. ii.