29 DECEMBER 1883, Page 23

Examples of Carved-Oak Woodwork of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,

by William Bliss Sanders (Bernard Quaritoh), is a hand- some volume, containing descriptive letterpress, with twenty-five illustrations, which have been photographed from sketches by the author. It will have for many persons, who have not given up for "Chippendale" their first love, a great interest, and will furnish with models, some of Which at least are not beyond imitation, those who Me to employ their leisure with wood-carving.