Happy England. As Painted by Mrs. Allingham. With a Memoir
and Descriptions by M. B. Iluish. (A. and C. Black. 20s.)—It is impossible to imagine anything more different from the illustrations just described than those in the book before 1113. Here the three-colour photographic!, process in all its crudeness of gibbering colour riots through the pages. The worst of it is the The German and Flemish Masters in the National Gallery, by Mrs. With (G. Bell and Sons, 6s. net), is a methodical accozmt of a portion of our national collection. The book is well done and makes a useful handbook.
THE "HYPOSCOPE" RED BOOK.
We have received a copy of The "Hyposcope" Red Book (Water- low and Layton, 2s. 6d.), containing particulars concerning an in- genious instrument which, it is claimed, "enables a man to shoot without being seen and to spy out the land without exposing himself." We believe that the late Dr. Common, the astronomer, was elaborating something on similar principles at the time of his death, but we do not know whether the present instrument owes its birth to that distinguished man of science or no. At any rate, the present hyposcope has been perfected as an engine of war by Mr. William Youlten, and has already aroused considerable interest at Bieley, where it was on trial in the years 1902 and 1903. An impromptu device of the kind appears to have been adopted in those fertile fields of ingenuity, the trenches at Male..
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