13 DECEMBER 1884, Page 19

Nature's Serial Story. By E. P. Roe. (Sampson Low and

Co.)— There is something felicitous about the conception of this book. It is the story of a happy love, indeed, of more than one happy love, linked with and illustrated by the changes of the seasons, with the sights of beauty and refreshment that they bring with them, in short, by the " serial story of nature." The scene is in America. This gives us a certain freshness of interest to the pictures of life, whether it be of man or nature. The illustrations, too, are pleasing speci- mens of the peculiar skill with which American artists have enlarged the scope and increased the facilities of wood•engraving.