27 APRIL 1895, Page 11

A new edition is published of a very interesting book,

The Seine and the Loire, illustrated after Drawings by J. M. W. Turner, R.A., with Introductions and Descriptions by M. B. Huish, Ph.B. (J. S. Virtue and Co.) The drawings are repro- duced by line-engraving on steel, an art now extinct, as Mr. Huish remarks, "supplanted by photography and rebuffed by etching, which owes its popularity more to the skill of the printer than the author." The Seine drawings number forty ; they begin with Havre and end with Troyes, where Henry V. of England married the Princess Catherine,—the massive Church of St. Jean, where the ceremony took place, forms the background of the picture. The Loire pictures are twenty-one in number, and begin with Orleans. The last is an unidentified "Scone on the Loire."