Our Sketching Tour, by Two of the Artists (Griffith and
Ferran), has some pleasant touches in it, but it, is not altogether satisfac- tory. The illustrations depicting the adventures of a band of girls 'who have gone off on a sketching and frolic huntingtour with a lady -superintendent, and find themselves in Oxfordshire and elsewhere, are abundant, and many of them are not devoid of fun. Others are, however, deficient in this, and most decidedly so,—thus, it is itnpos- eible, in spite of the artists, to laugh at the representation of a young lady in a fur tippet who has forgot to put a lace fiche in her travelling- box. Had the absence of the lace fiche been depicted in its owner's face, there would have been some humour in the idea ; but it is not. The descriptive letterpress is weak to farcicality, and the amatorial thread which runs through it is certainly the thinnest we have ever seen.
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