‘We have in these volumes,penned in a truth-seeking spirit andillustrated with a copious generositywhich at once elucidates and adornseach section of the subject, contributionsto the literature of ChristianArt, for which every artist and everystudent of theology will confessdebt of private gratitude. To thoughtfulinquirers, richest mines are hereopened for meditation. To mindsprepared for deeper draughts toquench the thirst for knowledge, wellsare dug and fountains are made toflow even in the desert tracks of timewhere pilgrim’s foot seldom attemptsto tread. We think that Lady Eastlakehas done special service inbringing into popular view reconditestores which have hitherto beensealed for public use. She has, byappeal to the early heads of Christ inthe Catacombs, by reference to Christiansarcophagi of the fourth century,to ivories as old as the sixth century,and Greek MSS. and Byzantineminiatures of the ninth century,enabled the art-student to tract thehistory of types and antetypes, and toanalyse the rudimentary germs which,from age to age accumulating strengthand growing in comeliness, at lengthissued forth in perfected pictorialform. It is to this, the infancy of art,that at the present moment peculiarinterest attaches.’

Blackwood’s Magazine.