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• "Not Guilty"
  These are copies of larger pictures in the South Kensington Museum.
• Waiting for the Verdict
• "Do I like butter?"
• "Ten minutes to decide"
  "The woman that deliberates is lost".--(Addison)
• Grandfather's Pet
  A cottage home in Belgium, where tidiness is the rule. the baby is packed in a bag, but human nature is alike in every fashion, and "Grandfather's pet" is the King of the house.
• The Cold Dead Year
  The grass is poor and the sky dull and heavy with coming rain, and there would be nothing to break the sadness of the picture if it were not that the boy's face is thoughtful and suggests that he can see above "the dull flats of earth" to the ;ine of blue sky in the distance. // The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, / The abre boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,/ And the year / On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, / Is lying. / Come months, come away,/ From november to May,/ In your saddest array;/ Follow the bier/ Of the dead cold year,/ And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre.--(P. B. Shelley).
• Nearing Home
  This is a portrait of the great grandson of Captain Harvey, who commanded the "Fighting temeraire," (of which there is so beautiful a picture by Turner in the National Gallery) at the Battle of Trafalgar. The telescope is painted from the actual telescope used in the battle.
• The Gap of Dunloe, Killarney
  Evening in an Irish valley. The shepherds have all gone to their cabins, and no sound but that of the torrent breaks "the everlasting silence of the hills."
• A doorway in Venice
  In Venice, where there are no streets but only canals, boats, or "gondolas," take the place of cabs. The gondolier on the right is stopping on his way to talk to his wife and child at the window, and the girls on the left are enjoying a gossip over their water carrying. The Venetians are as bright and sunny as their city.
• Return from the Honeymoon
  "A son is a son till he gets a wife, / A daughter's a daughter all her life."
• The Rt. Hon. Henry Fawcett, M. P., and Mrs. Fawcett
  "A true wife must be wise, not that she may set herself above her husband, but that she may never fall from his side." --Ruskin
• Exiles from the Fatherland
  As the evening hour of prayer draws on, the Jews in exile at Babylon remember their fatherland. "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept, when we remember Zion. We hanged out ==r harps upon the willows in the midst thereof."
• A Surrey Common
  Common land leads to a common life. The passing traveller stops to chat with the knot of laborers, and even the dogs and cows seems to share in the good fellowship. There are no enclosures, and the villagers set no fences between one another.
• "The Return of the Penitent"
  "He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her." --John viii, 7.
• Last Steps
  An old Chelsea Pensioner. The child whom he once carried up in his arms now helps him down.
• Off the South-east Coast
  The barges laden with hay, which go so heavilty in the Thames, and whose cargo is sold in the Whitechapel High Street, are here dancing in the sea.
• "Odd Fish"
  An Egyptian fish market: "Odd fish" to sell, and "odd fish" to buy. "All sorts and conditions of men" are a-marketing together--the grand lady, the beggar, the donkey-boy--but each face has a character of its own.
• By the Seashore
  The young girl is eagerly watching the sea and the fishing boars, and bids her father look; but where youth see hope, age sees memories.
• The Bay of Mentone
  The southern slopes of the maritime Alps are sheltered in winter. The storm-torn pines in the picture make a frame-work through which to look on the olive-clad palins below. The Queen stayed at Mentone two years ago.
• Front of Salisbury Cathedral
  “‘Walk to the west front, and there stand for a time, looking up at its deep-pointed porches and the dark places between their pillars, where there were statues once, and where fragments, here and there, of a stately figure, are still left, which has in it the likeness of a king, perhaps, indeed, a king on earth, perhaps a saintly king long ago in heaven; and so higher and higher, up to the great mouldering wall of rugged sculpture and confused arcades, shattered and grey, and grisly with heads of dragons and mocking fiends, worn by the rain, and sometimes formed into yet unseemlier shapes, and coloured on their stony scales by the deep russet-orange lichen, melancholy gold: and so, higher still, to the bleak towers, so far above, that the eye loses itself among the bosses of their traceries, though they are rude and strong, and only sees like a drift of eddying black points the crowd of restless birds."--Ruskin.
• Rehearsing the Service
  The old man will be content if the voices are in tune with the organ; the younger man has a sense that there must be another kind of harmony.
• The Ashantee War:--Conference with a Native King
  At these conferences the kings sometimes appeared with a certain amount of state, accompanied by numerous attendants carrying bunches of colored ostrich feathers, drums, and umbrellas, and the attendants wore plaques of gold on their breasts, and other ornaments. In the discussion, the king was usually represented by one of his councillors, or linguist, who, after consultation with the rest, spoke for him. This and the preceding picture are from sketches made by the late Sir G. Colley.
• The Ashantee War:--"Special Service"
  Officers were sent to all the tribes of the protectorate to raise men, collect carriers, and try and rouse our so-called "native allies" to action. As a rule they were well received, and everything was promised, though nothing was done. This sketch represents the arrival of English officers at a village on the Amissa, which river was crossed in a canoe made of the hollowed trunk of a tree.
• Head of a Brittany Girl
• A Normandy Fishwoman