Dutch Bulbs and Gardens. Painted by Mimi, Nixon. Described b y
Una Silberrad and Sophie Lyall. (A. and C. Black. 7s. (M. not.)—We do not think that the pictures in this volume are, or indeed can be, as attractive as those that we find in other volumes of the series. This is no fault of Miss Nixon's. Flowers in mass simply cannot be painted with the effect that can be produced in a landscape. We can easily under- stand that the " Spanish Irises " opposite p. 04 and the " Croons Field" (p. 40) aro gorgeous sights ; but in themsebies they do riot greatly please. For one thing, the flowers have no shape. We are nob sure whether two or three blooms would not have been more to the purpose. Whore there is more of n landscape the result is better, as in the " Return of the Storks " and the _Palace Gardens of Hot Loo" (the summer palace of the Queen). l'o general description is from the pen of Alias Una Silberrad, while Miss Sophie Lyall gives us what we may call the business side of bulb-growing.
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