Jasper Deane, Wood Carver of St. Paul's : a Tale.
By John Saunders. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Thie pretty story, quaintly told in the style which Mr. Saundors most frequently adopts, a little stiff and old-fashioned, without going quite back to the forms of English speech at the date of the action of the narrative, is reprinted from Good Words. It is a revival of the old times of Sir Christopher Wren and Grinling Gibbons, and the 'rebuilding of St. Paul's. The great architect and the groat artist aro plea- santly introduced, and the struggles and triumph of the hero of the story, Jasper Deane, are made very interesting. The book comes apropos to tho present revival of a taste for wood-carving. It is not very long since we wore informed on good authority that a quantity of the wood-carvings with which Grinling Gibbons adorned the formerly beautiful chapel of the Royal Hospital in Dublin had been used by the employes as firewood, and a few morsels only were rescued by the narrator of that act of vandalism.
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