Practical Designing. Edited by Gleeson White. (George Bell.) —Such materials
as carpets, curtains (muslin, lace, and tapestry), damask, and woven fabrics generally ; pottery, tiles, metal-work, cretonnes and printed fabrics, floor-cloths, stained-glass, wall- papers, are treated in this useful and handy little volume. Perhaps one of the most valuable articles, and one that appeals to a very largo number, is that on " Drawing for Reproduction." We can recommend it to the host of artists, great and little, who draw for papers, books, and magazines. The ordinary story- book is, as a rule, shockingly illustrated ; and this particular literature is much behind the general level of artistic taste. " Stained Glass" is also a most lucid guide to the preparation of cartoons for glass. The volume is most satisfactory in every department, woven fabrics es much as any. Wall-papers we might have had more of ; they are, as a rule, sadly deficient in excellence, none but the cheapest and most expensive having any merit.
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