The amateur collector will like the cheery enthusiasm that Mrs.
Ella Shannon Bowles displays in About Antiques (Lippincott, 15s.), and the expert will learn something from her with regard to early American glass and furniture, especi- ally as the book is well illustrated. Eighteenth century America shared the tastes of eighteenth century England, and the " highboys," tables and chairs of the " Colonial " period in New England and Virginia are often excellent in design, and well deserve their present popularity. Mrs. Bowles judges the rustic pottery of the same period from a patriotic standpoint ; she has better reasons for commending the glass made by Stiegal, a German who worked in Pennsyl- vania before the Revolution. An interesting account is given of the fine tapestries made by Vandermark in London under William HI, owned by Elihu Yale, and lately given by Mr. Harkness to the University that Yale founded.
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