Ruskin:  Pre-Raphaelitism, 1854, and other later writings. 
  F. G. Stephens:  William Holman-Hunt and his Works, 1860. 
  William Sharp:  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1882. 
  Hall Caine:  Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1882. 
  Walter Hamilton:  The aesthetic Movement in England, 1882. 
  T. Watts-Dunton:  The Truth about Rossetti, 1883, and other writings. 
  W. Holman-Hunt:  The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1884 (?). 
  Earnest Chesneau:  La Peinture Anglaise, 1884 (?). 
  Joseph Knight:  Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1887. 
  W. M. Rossetti:  Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer, 1889. 
  Harry Quilter:  Preferences in Art, 1892. 
  W. Bell Scott:  Autobiographical Notes, 1892. 
  Esther Wood:  Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, 1894. 
  Robert de la Sizeranne:  La Peinture Anglaise Contemporaine, 1895. 
  Dante G. Rossetti:  Family Letters, with Memoir by W. M. Rossetti, 1895. 
  Richard Muther:  The History of Modern Painting, vols. ii. and iii., 1896. 
  Ford H. M. Hueffer:  Ford Madox Brown, 1896. 
  Dante G. Rossetti:  Letters to William Allingham, edited by Dr. Birkbeck
    Hill, 1897. 
  M. H. Spielmann:  Millais and his Works, 1898. 
  Antonio Agresti:  Poesie di Dante Gabriel Rossetti.  Traduzione con uno
    Studio su la Pittura Inglese, etc., 1899. 
  Fraulein Wilmersdoerffer:  Dante Gabriel Rossetti und sein Einflusz, 1899. 
  Edited by W. M. Rossetti:  Ruskin, Rossetti, Praeraphaelitism, 1899. 
  J. Guille Millais:  Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, 1899. 
  Percy H. Bate:  The English Praeraphaelite Painters, 1899. 
  H. C. Marillier:  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1899. 
  Edited by W. M. Rossetti:  Praeraphaelite Diaries and Letters, 1899.

There are also books on Burne-Jones and Willaim Morris with which I am not accurately acquainted.  It seems strange that no memoir of Thomas Woolner has yet been published; a fine sculptor and remarkable man known to and appreciated by all sorts of people, and certain to have figured extensively in correspondence.  He died in October 1892.  Mr. Holman-Hunt is understood to have been engaged for a long while past upon a book on Praeraphaelitism which would cast into the shade most of the earlier literature on the subject.

  W. M. ROSSETTI
  London, July 1899.

N.B.—­When the third number of the magazine was about to appear, with a change of title from “The Germ” to “Art and Poetry,” two fly-sheets were drawn up, more, I think, by Messrs. Tupper the printing-firm than by myself.  They contain some “Opinions of the Press,” already referred to in this Introduction, and an explanation as to the change of title.  The fly-sheets appear in facsimile as follows: 

“The Germ”

The Subscribers to this Periodical are respectfully informed that in future it will appear under the title of “Art and Poetry” instead of the original arbitrary one, which occasioned much misapprehension—­This alteration will not be productive of any ill consequence, as the title has never occurred in the work itself, and Label will be supplied for placing on the old wrappers, so as to make them conformable to the new—­