27 JUNE 1908, Page 8

Messrs. Black have added two more volumes to their series

of what we might call illustrated topography,-The Highlands and Islands, Painted by W. H. Smith and Described by A. R. Hope- Moncrieff (10s. net), and Surrey, Painted by Sutton Palmer and Described by the same writer (205. net). In the former volume Mr. Smith shows in many of his pictures a truly artistic spirit and sympathy for wild Nature.-A similar volume to those just mentioned is Normandy, by Nice Jungman, the Text by G. E. Mitten (same publishers, 10s. net). The illustrations have the peculiar style and qualities of their author ; but interesting as is their drawing, the colour cannot be called pleasant. Perhaps the artist has been betrayed by the process of reproduction.