The Sevres Porcelain of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. By
Guy Francis Laking. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co. 410 103. net.)—Mr. Laking, well known as an expert in European armour, has added with success a new province to his domain. The Sevres manufactory was established by Louis XV. in the first half of the eighteenth century. Its products soon became famous, and some of the finest of them have been added to the Royal collection at Windsor, which has always been able to avail itself of the best expert advice, a help not less indispensable than the command of money. The volume is an imperial quarto, and the plates, in which colour-printing may be seen to the best advantage, number fifty- six. They render the effect of brilliancy produced by fine porce- lain with great success. The book as a whole is a very handsome one, and the publishers may be very heartily congratulated upon its production. It would make a capital wedding-present to a collector of china.
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