19 SEPTEMBER 1908, Page 25

Country Sketches for City Dwellers. Painted and Described by Mrs.

Willingham Rawnsley. (A. and C. Black. 7s. Od. net.)— Mrs. Rawnsley gives us an agreeable variety of scene and time. She takes us through the year, describing seasons of which necessarily the city-dweller can know but little—the early promise of February, for instance, and an apple orchard in bloom— and transports us from the South Country to the North, from a Surrey lane to a Lake Country moor or trout-stream. We reach her landscapes, delightfully pictured by facile pen and skilful pencil, without the trouble and cost of railway or motor-car—she is enthusiastic about the motor—and without risk of cold or rain. Altogether, this is a very pleasing book, good to read, and good to look at.