12 FEBRUARY 1887, Page 26

Flowers, and How to Paint Them. By Maud Naftel. (Cassell

and Co.)—After some preliminary remarks as to the qualifications needed before the work can be undertaken—Miss Naftell is careful to insist that you most learn to draw before you begin to paint—proceeds to give specific instructions for copying the nine coloured plates which she farnisliee. Then follow "hints for working from Nature." We should have thought that some of this work, of the very simplest kind, might well be carried on daring the copying of the studies, a single petal or leaf being drawn from Nature after the whole study has been finished.