13 NOVEMBER 1880, Page 21

Sylvan Spring. By F. G. Heath. (Sampson Low and Co.)—A

sympathetic and pretty volume about spring in the woods and fields. Here are twenty wood engravings of scenery, after drawings by Harrison Weir, Birket Foster, and E. M. Whimper; then we find twelve chromolithographic plates from studies of wild plants, by F. E. Hnlme ; while one hundred small illustrations of the flowers and ferns of spring are included within the text of the volume. The drawing of the plants shown in Mr. Hulmo's plates is quite satisfac- tory, while the colouring employed in the majority of cases is more than passable. The scientific portions of this last book of Mr. Heath's are to be commended for the increased care which has been bestowed upon them.