British Landscape and .Coast Scenery, and Marine Painting, both by
Edward Duncan (Blackie and Son), are two volumes in the series of " Vere Foster's Advanced Water-Colour Series." Each volume contains eight fat-similes of the original paintings by Mr. Duncan, with a number of drawings in outline, Isc., some of them after Turner. There are four-and-twenty plates in all, and descrip- tive letterpress. Mr. Duncan's method is described in the intro- duction, and the books, which have official approval as " Science and Art " prizes in the Education Department, are likely to be useful.—With these may be mentioned Flower Painting for Beginners : Twelve Studies from Nature, by Ethel Nisbet (Blackie and Son). Outline sketches and instructions are added.—The Child's Companion and Juvenile Instructor (Religious Tract Society) is a useful little periodical, readable, and with pictures above the average.—From the same publishers we have also The Tract Magazine, The Cottager and Artisan, and The Child's Companion and Almanac. Of larger size, and somewhat more ornamental in appearance, is Friendly Greetings, illustrated, as well as a volume suited for the quite little ones, Our Little Dots.
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