10 DECEMBER 1887, Page 12

Treasures of Art and Song. Arranged by Robert Ellice Mack.

(Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—Mr. Mack has got together a pretty

collection of pictures and poems. For the latter, he has sometimes had recourse to well-known pieces,—Tennyson's "May Queen," for instance, and Longfellow's; "Village Blacksmith" are included among them. The original poems naturally suffer somewhat from the comparison, but are not unworthy, on the whole, of their place. The drawings, reproduced by some kind of photographic process, are often attractive. The three female figures in "June Roses," and those also in "The Queen of the May," are very pleasing.