/re/ and. Painted by Francis S. Walker, R.H.A. Described by
Frank Mathew. (A. and C. Black. 20s. net.)—This is a charming picture-book of Ireland, with just enough letterpress to explain the illustrations and make the reader feel at home in the many beautiful bits of scenery so admirably rendered in water-colour by Mr. Walker. History is remembered as well as Nature in some of the pictures, and domestic life, home industries, and national architectural characteristics receive their share of attention. From the last point of view the picture of St. Kevin's Church, with the double-vaulted oratory and round-towered belfry, is particularly interesting. Still more so is the last picture of all, representing the Round Tower on Devenish Island in Lough Erne, where are two ruined churches with burial grounds still in use, to which the dead and their mourners are carried by pro- cessions of boats starting from the Port of Lamentation in Porters, Enniskillen. It reads like an allegory from an old book of /eerie, but is in truth a realistic account of what is done to-day. The volume contains seventy-nine full-page coloured pictures. —The West Indies. Painted by A. S. Forrest. Described by John Henderson. (A. and C. Black. 20s. net.)—Even more attractive is the picture-book of the West Indies. There is a peculiar delicacy of outline and daintiness of colour in Mr. Forrest's water-colour drawing, which the chromolithographer has reproduced with singular success. He is good at the human face and figure too, and his Barbadoes diving-boys are full of life and humour. Native life is represented in all its phases and activities. But the charm is in the landscapes and seascapes, and the little studies of farm and dwelling-house and market- place.
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