in a monumental way what he felt to be the best existing likeness.  Mr. Cross took the drawing over to M. Paul Rajon, who is acknowledged to be the prince of modern etchers, and in his retirement at Auvers-sur-Oise, the great French artist has produced the beautiful etching which we have been permitted to reproduce in engraving.  For this permission, and for great courtesy and kindness under circumstances the peculiar nature of which it is not necessary here to specify, we have to tender our most sincere thanks to Mr. J.W.  Cross and to Mr. Burton.

“These are regarded by her friends to be the only important portraits of George Eliot which exist, but Mr. Cross possesses a very interesting black silhouette, cut with scissors, when she was sixteen.  In this profile, the characteristics of the mature face are seen in the course of development.  There is also a photograph, the only one ever taken, dating from about 1850, the eyes of which are said to be exceedingly fine.  As an impression of later life, there should be mentioned a profile drawn in pencil by Mrs. Alma Tadema, in March, 1877.  Of all the portraits here alluded to, the one we engrave is the only one at present destined for publication.  It may be added that there exist one or two other profile sketches, which, however, are not approved by the friends of George Eliot.”

3.  BIOGRAPHICAL.

Atlantic Monthly, 14:66, December, 1864, Kate Field on “English Authors in Florence.”  Louise M. Alcott in the Independent for Nov. 1,1866.  The Galaxy, 7:801, June, 1869, Justin McCarthy on “George Eliot and George Lewes;” reprinted in “Modern Leaders,” 1872 “Home Sketches in France and other Papers,” by the late Mrs. Henry M. Field, G.P.  Putnam’s Sons, 1875, p. 208, “The Author of Adam Bede in Her own Home.”  International Review, 10:447, 497, May and June, 1881, W. Fraser Rae.  The Century. 23:55, with portrait, F.W.H.  Myers, reprinted in Essays:  Modern, London, 1883; 23:47, “The Portrait of George Eliot.”  The Nineteenth Century, 9:778, Edith Simcox.  Blackwood’s Magazine February, 1881.  Harper’s Magazine, May, 1881, C. Kegan Paul; reprinted in Biographical Sketches, London, 1883; March, 1882, E.S.  Phelps.  Westminster Review, 116:154, July, 1881, W.M.W.  Call, “George Eliot:  her Life and Writings.”  Le Livre, April 10, 1881, “Life in Geneva.”  London Daily Graphic, 23:27, January 8, 1851, “Reminiscences of George Eliot.”  Lippincott’s Magazine, 31:510, May, 1883, J.A.  Dickson, “An Afternoon at Ashbourne.”  Inquirer, January, 1881, Dr. Sadler’s address.  Pall Mall Gazette, December 30, 1880, “Early Life.”  London Daily News, December, 30, 1880, account of her funeral.  Eclectic Magazine, March, 1881, account of her early life and of her funeral; April, A personal sketch.  “George Eliot,” Mathilde Blind, 1883, W.H.  Allen, London.  “Pen pictures of Modern Authors,” Wm. Sheppard, 1882, G.P.  Putnam’s Sons, New York.  The Congregationalist, May 28, 1879, Mrs. Annie Downs, “A Visit to George Eliot.”  The Christian Leader, October 27,1881, Mrs. M.E.  Bruce.