Publishers are alone responsible for their reproduction in their present form, and for the order in which they now appear.

To enhance the value of the volume, illustrations of several of our great masters' works are given, which did not accompany the papers as originally published, viz.-The Shepherd Boy, Count Ugolino, the Nativity, Mrs. Siddons, the Infant Hercules, and the Holy Family, by Reynolds; the Marriage à la Mode, and the Rake's Progress, by Hogarth; the Fall of Carthage, and the Grand Canal at Venice, by Turner; Rustic Hospitality, Sunday Morning, Sale of the Pet Lamb, and the Fisherman's Departure, by Collins; Cupid in a Shell, and Ulysses and the Syrens, by Etty; Blake's Scene from Dante; and Flaxman's Charon's Boat, Descent of Beatrice, his sculptured Guardian Angel, and Thy Will be Done. A few words in illustration of these subjects have been inserted in the text from the ART-JOURNAL.

The Rambles in Rome appeared in that publication in 1857, without illustrations; the fifteen subjects, however, now introduced as such, will need no apology for their insertion.