majority) who assented to the republication, acting herein on behalf of my brother, then lately deceased, as well as of myself.  I am quite aware that some of the articles in “The Germ” are far from good, and some others, though good in essentials, are to a certain extent juvenile; but juvenility is anything but uninteresting when it is that of such men as Coventry Patmore and Dante Rossetti.  “The Germ” contains nothing of which, in spirit and in purport, the writers need be ashamed.  If people like to read it without paying fancy prices for the original edition, they were and are, so far as I am concerned, welcome to do so.  Before Mr. Stock’s long-standing scheme could be legally carried into effect, an American publisher, Mr. Mosher, towards the close of 1898, brought out a handsome reprint of “The Germ” (not in any wise a facsimile), and a few of the copies were placed on sale in London.{3} Mr. Mosher gave as an introduction to his volume an article by the late J. Ashcroft Noble which originally appeared in an English magazine in May 1882.  This article is entitled “A Pre-Raphaelite Magazine.”  It is written in a spirit of generous sympathy, and is mostly correct in its facts.  I may here mention another article on “The Germ,” also published, towards 1868, in some magazine.  It is by John Burnell Payne (originally a Clergyman of the Church of England), who died young in 1869.  He wrote a triplet of articles, named “Praeraphaelite Poetry and Painting,” of which Part I. is on “The Germ.”  He expresses himself sympathetically enough; but his main drift is to show that the Praeraphaelite movement, after passing through some immature stages, developed into a quasi-Renaissance result.  A perusal of his paper will show that Mr. Payne was one of the persons who supposed Chiaro dell’Erma, the hero of “Hand and Soul,” to have been a real painter, author of an extant picture.

{3} I have seen in the “Irish Figaro”, May 6, 1899, a very pleasant notice, signed “J.  Reid,” of this reprint.

Mr. Stock’s reprint is of the facsimile order, and even faults of print are reproduced.  I am not called upon to say with any precision what there are.  On page 45 I observe “ear,” which should be “car”; on page 62, Angilico, and Rossini (for Rosini).  On page 155 the words, “I believe that the thought-wrapped philosopher,” ought to begin a new sentence.  On page 159 “Phyrnes” ought of course to be “Phrynes.”  The punctuation could frequently be improved.

I will conclude by appending a little list (it makes no pretension to completeness) of writings bearing upon the Praeraphaelite Brotherhood and its members.  Writings of that kind are by this date rather numerous; but some readers of the present pages may not well know where to find them, and might none the less be inclined to read up the subject a little.  I give these works in the order (as far as I know it) of their dates, without any attempt to indicate the degree of their importance.  That is a question on which I naturally entertain opinions of my own, but I shall not intrude them upon the reader.