Architectural Studies in France. By the Rev. J. L. Petit.
New edition, revised by Edward Bell, 31.A., F.S.A. (George Bell and Sons.)—This is a new edition of a work well known to students of architecture, which first appeared in 1854. But for the addition of a few notes and an index, the text is substantially a reprint. A few woodcuts have been added, and the original
lithographs, after drawings by the author, have been reduced in scale and reproduced by another process. This allows the book to be published in a handier form. Much has been done for the exact study of the history of Gothic styles, both in England and France, since Mr. Petit wrote ; the photograph has come in to con- vey the facts of a building's appearance in a way that the traveller's sketch could hardly do, and the field of practical controversy in the matter of styles has shifted a good deal ; but Mr. Petit was one of the pioneers who broke ground in architectural study, and it would be difficult to name any one book which has superseded this.
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